Where: Northern Territory, Australia (14.2° S, 129.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° S, 112.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Marine Beds Formation (Port Keats Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with siderite
Collected by G.A. Thomas in 1956
Primary reference: G. A. Thomas. 1957. Oldhaminid brachiopods in the Permian of northern Australia. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 2:174-182 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 101219: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Costiferina thomasi1 Archbold 1985 | |
"Waagenoconcha (Wimanoconcha) imperfecta" = Waagenoconcha imperfecta2
"Waagenoconcha (Wimanoconcha) imperfecta" = Waagenoconcha imperfecta2 Prendergast 1935 | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Latispirifer amplissimus3 Archbold and Thomas 1985 | |
Tomiopsis hardmani4 Archbold and Thomas 1986 |