Where: Western Australia, Australia (28.7° S, 114.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° S, 57.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Newmarracarra Limestone Formation (Champion Bay Group), Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)
• Correlated with the ovalis/laeviuscula Zones of the lower Bajocian by Hall (1989).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Old UWA collection. Specimens lost in transit from Arkell back to Western Australia.
Primary reference: W. J. Arkell and P. E. Playford. 1954. The Bajocian ammonites of Western Australia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 237:547-605 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 171226: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Stephanoceras (Stemmatoceras) cf. subcoronatum Oppel 1856 ammonite |