Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.1° S, 115.6° E: paleocoordinates 60.4° S, 99.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Callytharra Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Gibb Maitland
• Repository: Geological Survey of Western Australia
Primary reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1903. Descriptions of Carboniferous fossils from the Gascoyne District, Western Australia, collected by Mr. A. Gibb Maitland, government geologist. Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 10:1-31 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 101221: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Plerophyllum australe Hinde 1890 horn coral | |
Stenolaemata | |
"Aetomacladia ambrosioides" = Ramipora ambrosioides3
"Aetomacladia ambrosioides" = Ramipora ambrosioides3 Bretnall 1926 | |
Hexagonella dendroidea, "Coscinium australe n. sp." = Hexagonella australe3, "Hexagonella crucialis" = Evactinostella crucialis
Hexagonella dendroidea Hudleston 1883
"Coscinium australe n. sp." = Hexagonella australe3 Bretnall 1926
"Hexagonella crucialis" = Evactinostella crucialis Hudleston 1883 | |
"Streblotrypa marmionensis" = Streblotrypa (Streblascopora) marmionensis3
"Streblotrypa marmionensis" = Streblotrypa (Streblascopora) marmionensis3 Etheridge 1926 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spirelytha fredericksi1 Archbold and Thomas 1984 | |
Fusispirifer carnarvonensis2, ""Spirifera" musakheylensis" = Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis, "Spirifera hardmani" = Quadrospira hardmani
Fusispirifer carnarvonensis2 Archbold and Thomas 1987
""Spirifera" musakheylensis" = Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis Davidson 1862
"Spirifera hardmani" = Quadrospira hardmani Foord 1890 | |
"Cleiothyris macleayana" = Cleiothyridina macleayana
"Cleiothyris macleayana" = Cleiothyridina macleayana Etheridge 1889 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Productus foordi n. sp." = Cimmeriella foordi
"Productus foordi n. sp." = Cimmeriella foordi Etheridge 1903 | |
"Chonetes pratti" = Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti
"Chonetes pratti" = Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti Davidson 1859 | |
Sedentaria | |
"Spirorbis" ambiguus Fleming 1825 |