Scolyers Hill, Hellyer Gorge (Permian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.3° S, 145.7° E: paleocoordinates 71.5° S, 172.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 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 105490: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
"Grumantia costellata" = Arctitreta costellata
"Grumantia costellata" = Arctitreta costellata Clarke 1990
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis elongata" = Ambikella elongata
"Tomiopsis elongata" = Ambikella elongata McClung and Armstrong 1975
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
"Myonia (Pachymyonia) morrisi" = Pachymyonia morrisi
"Myonia (Pachymyonia) morrisi" = Pachymyonia morrisi Etheridge 1919 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus australis Runnegar 1969 clam