Fossil Cliff sample 102, Irwin River Area (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (28.9° S, 115.5° E: paleocoordinates 63.6° S, 97.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fossil Cliff Member (Holmwood Formation), Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• 8.05 m above base of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: chemical, acetic,

Primary reference: D. Ferdinando. 2001. Ostracode and foraminiferal taxonomy and paleoecology of the Holmwood Shale, northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. 1-326 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108243: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Scrobiculidae
Roundyella ludbrookae Fleming 1985 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia irwinensis Fleming 1985 ostracod
Healdia gregoryi Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
Healdia springsurensis Crespin 1945 ostracod
Healdia chapmani Crespin 1945 ostracod