BMR PK1, Tchindi Beach, Port Keats (Permian of Australia)

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
 Productida - Productidae
Costiferina thomasi1 Archbold 1985
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Waagenoconcha (Wimanoconcha) imperfecta" = Waagenoconcha imperfecta2
"Waagenoconcha (Wimanoconcha) imperfecta" = Waagenoconcha imperfecta2 Prendergast 1935
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Leptodus cf. nobilis Waagen 1883
"locality 1"
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Latispirifer amplissimus3 Archbold and Thomas 1985
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Tomiopsis hardmani4 Archbold and Thomas 1986