Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.0° S, 147.0° E: paleocoordinates 71.4° S, 175.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Billop Formation (Golden Valley Group), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
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 105481: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Myonia (Pachymyonia) morrisi" = Pachymyonia morrisi, Myonia elongata
"Myonia (Pachymyonia) morrisi" = Pachymyonia morrisi Etheridge 1919 clam
Myonia elongata Dana 1847 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
"Grumantia costellata" = Arctitreta costellata
"Grumantia costellata" = Arctitreta costellata Clarke 1990 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Sulciplica crassa Clarke 1990 | |
"Tomiopsis cf. branxtonensis" = Geothomasia branxtonensis
"Tomiopsis cf. branxtonensis" = Geothomasia branxtonensis Etheridge 1919 |