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
Bivalvia | |
"Eurydesma hobartensis" = Eurydesma hobartense2
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"Deltopecten illawarensis" = Deltopecten illawarrensis2
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Gastropoda | |
"Keeneia twelvetreesi" = Paraplatyschisma twelvetreesi2
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Stenolaemata | |
Stenopora tasmaniensis Lonsdale 1844 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Strophalosia subcircularis n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis, "Costalosia apicallosa n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis, "Wyndhamia irregularis n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis
"Strophalosia subcircularis n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis Clarke 1969
"Costalosia apicallosa n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis Clarke 1969
"Wyndhamia irregularis n. sp." = Strophalosia subcircularis Clarke 1969 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Trigonotreta stokesi1 Koenig 1825 |