Wombat Plateau, Site 764, upper interval (Triassic of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (16.5° S, 115.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 115.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Triasina hantkeni Biozone Member, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• based on foraminifers

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section

Primary reference: U. Röhl, T. Dumont, U. Rad, R. Martini, and L. Zaninetti. 1991. Upper Triassic Tethyan Carbonates off Northwest Australia (Wombat Plateau, ODP Leg 122). Facies 25:211-252 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36912: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 19.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
 Robertinida - Duostominidae
Duostominidae indet. Brotzen 1963
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
at top of Rhaetian
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astraeomorphidae
Astraeomorpha sp. Reuss 1854 stony coral