Fossil Cliff sample 126, 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 (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• 9.95 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 108290: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Myodocopida - Polycopidae
? Quasipolycope "sp. A" Jones 1995 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Healdia westraliaensis Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
Healdia obtusa Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
Healdia crespinae Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
Healdia gregoryi Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
Healdia irwinensis Fleming 1985 ostracod
Cribroconcha ludbrookae Fleming 1985 ostracod
 Podocopida - Quasillitidae
Graphiadactyllis australae Crespin 1945 ostracod
Graphiadactyllis jonesi Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia (Bairdia) cf. beedei Ulrich and Bassler 1906 ostracod
Bairdia (Bairdia) cf. reussiana Kirkby 1858 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
Pseudobythocypris hockingi Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
 Podocopida - Tricornidae
Rectospinella australica Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Monoceratina granulosa Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
Kirkbya fossilcliffi Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Indivisiidae
Sulcoindivisia crasquinsoleauella Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Youngiellidae
Moorites irwini Ferdinando 2001 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Aechminidae
Aechmina reticulata Ferdinando 2001 ostracod