Kansas Creek, Western Bluff (Permian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.6° S, 146.2° E: paleocoordinates 71.5° S, 173.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kansas Creek Formation, Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Middle Part of Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: M. J. Clarke. 1990. Late Palaeozoic (Tamarian; Late Carboniferous-Early Permian) cold-water brachiopods from Tasmania. Alcheringa 14:53-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105480: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Strophalosia concentrica n. sp. Clarke 1990
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Pseudosyrinx allandalensis" = Cyrtella allandalensis
"Pseudosyrinx allandalensis" = Cyrtella allandalensis Armstrong 1970