Quamby Brook, Golden Valley (Permian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.6° S, 146.7° E: paleocoordinates 72.0° S, 176.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glencoe Formation (Golden Valley Group), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Bulk of material collected from 4 inch thick mudstone. About 25 feet below base of Billop Sandstone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, pebbly mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: M. J. Clarke. 1969. Tasmanian Strophalosiidae. Tasmania Department of Mines, Geological Survey Record 10:1-51 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105489: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Keeneia twelvetreesi" = Paraplatyschisma twelvetreesi2
"Keeneia twelvetreesi" = Paraplatyschisma twelvetreesi2 Dun 1913 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Eurydesmatidae
"Eurydesma hobartensis" = Eurydesma hobartense2
"Eurydesma hobartensis" = Eurydesma hobartense2 Johnston 1887 scallop
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
"Deltopecten illawarensis" = Deltopecten illawarrensis2
"Deltopecten illawarensis" = Deltopecten illawarrensis2 Morris 1845 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta stokesi1 Koenig 1825
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
"Strophalosia subcircularis n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis, "Wyndhamia irregularis n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis, "Costalosia apicallosa n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis
"Strophalosia subcircularis n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis Clarke 1969
"Wyndhamia irregularis n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis Clarke 1969
"Costalosia apicallosa n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis Clarke 1969
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Stenopora tasmaniensis Lonsdale 1844