M15, Fossil Cliffs, Maria Island (Permian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.6° S, 148.1° E: paleocoordinates 70.9° S, 179.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Basal beds, 2 m below base of Darlington Limestone, Tamarian Stage T2

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, conglomeratic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. M. Reid. 2003. Permian Bryozoa of Tasmania and New South Wales: systematics and their use in Tasmanian biostratigraphy. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir 28:1-133 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116570: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Stenopora tasmaniensis Lonsdale 1844
 Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae
Dyscritella inversa n. sp. Reid 2003