LATE EMSIAN RUGOSE CORALS OF THE MOUNT-PODGE AREA, BURDEKIN BASIN, NORTH QUEENSLAND

The Laroona Formation and Mount Podge Limestone are defined for the lo wer conglomerates and micaceous sandstones, and the upper coralline li mestones exposed in the Mount Podge area, north Queensland. Acanthophy llum (Acanthophyllum) clermontense-Protomacgeea fauna from these two u nits (mainly from the Mount Podge Limestone) in the area is of late Em sian age, and comparable with other Emsian to early Eifelian coral fau nas from Queensland and New South Wales. Fifteen species belonging to 14 genera (one genus and 7 species new) are described from the Mount P odge Limestone, including Microplasma ronense (Mansuy 1913), Lekanophy llum laroonaense sp. nov., Sanidophyllum sp., Tabulophyllum carinatum sp. nov., Carlinastraea callosa sp. nov., Australophyllum sp., Xystrip hyllum cf. dunstani (Etheridge 1911), X. cf. magnum Hill 1942a, Taimyr ophyllum pedderi sp. nov., Laroonaphyllum jacki gen. et sp. nov., Acan thophyllum (Acanthophyllum) clermontense (Etheridge 1911), Disphyllum (Disphyllum) poracouvinense sp. nov., Phillipsastrea sp. cf. maculosa Hill 1942a, Protomacgeea minor sp. nov. and Thamnophyllum sp., and one new species Gaynaphyllum runningense sp. nov. from the very top of th e underlying Laroona Formation.