Prider's Lookout, 1 mile NW, Nangetty-Holmwood Boundary (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (29.0° S, 115.5° E: paleocoordinates 63.6° S, 97.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holmwood Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• About 150 feet stratigraphically above the band of Metalegoceras jacksoni

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy limestone

• Thin sandy crystalline limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Teichert and B. F. Glenister. 1952. Lower Permian ammonoids from the Irwin Basin, Western Australia. Journal of Paleontology 26:12-23 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119042: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
"Metalegoceras campbelli" = Juresanites campbelli
"Metalegoceras campbelli" = Juresanites campbelli Teichert and Glenister 1952 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
Uraloceras irwinense n. sp. Teichert and Glenister 1952 ammonite