Pelican Creek, CPA21, Bowen River Coalfield (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.6° S, 147.7° E: paleocoordinates 55.8° S, 139.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudostrophalosia ingelarensis brachiopod zone, Blenheim Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Pelican fauna equivalent to the P. ingelarensis zone, according to Briggs (1998).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: K. S. W. Campbell. 1965. Australian Permian terebratuloids. Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 68:3-146 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105162: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae
Gilledia pelicanensis, "Maorielasma cf. globosum" = Maorielasma imperatum
Gilledia pelicanensis Campbell 1965
"Maorielasma cf. globosum" = Maorielasma imperatum Waterhouse 1964
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Ingelarella pelicanensis n. sp. Campbell 1960