UWA WC27, Mungadan Paddock (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (23.8° S, 114.5° E: paleocoordinates 57.0° S, 91.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wandagee Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Calceolispongia stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: N. W. Archbold and G. A. Thomas. 1985. New genera of Western Australian Permian Spiriferidae (Brachiopoda). Alcheringa 9:269-292 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101220: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer amplus n. sp. Archbold and Thomas 1986
Crassispirifer pinguis n. sp. Archbold and Thomas 1985