Snug River, Channel Highway roadcut (Permian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (43.1° S, 147.3° E: paleocoordinates 72.5° S, 180.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bundella Formation, 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 105491: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis cf. branxtonensis" = Geothomasia branxtonensis
"Tomiopsis cf. branxtonensis" = Geothomasia branxtonensis Etheridge 1919
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Merismopteria macroptera Morris 1845 oyster