Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.9° S, 147.3° E: paleocoordinates 78.2° S, 142.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ferntree Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Horizon B. About 45 m below the top of the group.
•The Ferntree Fm is the youngest marine Permian unit in Tasmanian, of late Lymingtonian age. Briggs (1998) correlated the late Lymingtonian with his mainland brachiopod zones, ranging from the Echinalosia wassi zone to the Echinalosia deari zone and with palynological zones APP4.3 and APP5. Radiometric calibration of these palynologyical zones by Laurie et al. (2016) suggests that APP4.3 is mid-Wuchiapingian and APP5 spans the late Wuchiapingian and Changhsingian. A Wuchiapingian age is assigned to the Ferntree Formation here.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: M. J. Clarke. 1973. Faunas from the Ferntree Group of south-eastern Tasmania. Technical Reports - Tasmania Department of Mines 16:50-65 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 105429: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
Stenopora crinita Lonsdale 1845 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Martiniopsis magna" = Johndearia magna, "Martiniopsis cf. undulosa" = Ingelarella undulosa
"Martiniopsis magna" = Johndearia magna Campbell 1960
"Martiniopsis cf. undulosa" = Ingelarella undulosa Campbell 1961 | |
Bivalvia | |
Merismopteria macroptera Morris 1845 oyster | |
Astartila intrepida, "Megadesmus grandis" = Megadesmus (Cleobis) grandis
Astartila intrepida Dana 1847 clam
"Megadesmus grandis" = Megadesmus (Cleobis) grandis Dana 1847 clam |