Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.7° S, 147.2° E: paleocoordinates 77.4° S, 171.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Grange Mudstone Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Above the Berriedale Limestone and a lateral equivalent of the Deep Bay Formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: M. J. Clarke. 1971. The fauna and age of Malbina A. Technical Reports - Tasmania Department of Mines 14:151-157 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 105422: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Cancrinella farleyensis" = Costatumulus farleyensis
"Cancrinella farleyensis" = Costatumulus farleyensis Etheridge and Dun 1909 | |
Wyndhamia jukesi Etheridge 1880 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Grantonia cracovensis" = Trigonotreta cracovensis, "Grantonia hobartensis" = Trigonotreta hobartensis
"Grantonia cracovensis" = Trigonotreta cracovensis Wass 1966
"Grantonia hobartensis" = Trigonotreta hobartensis Brown 1953 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Stenopora crinita Lonsdale 1845 | |
Bivalvia | |
Deltopecten limaeformis Morris 1845 scallop |