Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.7° S, 151.5° E: paleocoordinates 61.8° S, 169.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Allandale Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, conglomeratic limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.D. Dana in 1838-1842; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: J. D. Dana. 1847. Descriptions of fossil shells of the collections of the exploring expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes, USN, obtained in Australia, from the lower layers of the coal formation in Illawarra, and from a deposit probably of nearly the same age at Harper's Hill, Valley of the Hunter. American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series 4:151-160 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119250: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
"Conularia tenuistriata" = Notoconularia tenuistriata1, "Conularia levigata" = Notoconularia levigata1
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Stenolaemata | |
"Chaetetes tasmaniensis" = Stenopora tasmaniensis1 Lonsdale 1844
"Chaetetes ovata" = Stenopora ovata1 Lonsdale 1844 | |
Bivalvia | |
Solen (Solecurtus) planulatus n. sp. Dana 1847 clam | |
"Modiolopsis imbricata n. sp." = Merismopteria imbricata, "Modiolopsis arcodes n. sp." = Merismopteria imbricata
"Modiolopsis imbricata n. sp." = Merismopteria imbricata Dana 1847 oyster
"Modiolopsis arcodes n. sp." = Merismopteria imbricata Dana 1847 oyster | |
"Pecten comptus n. sp." = Fletcheripecten laticostatus, "Pecten tenuicollis n. sp." = Etheripecten tenuicollis
"Pecten comptus n. sp." = Fletcheripecten laticostatus Waterhouse 1982 scallop
"Pecten tenuicollis n. sp." = Etheripecten tenuicollis Dana 1847 scallop | |
"Pecten illawarrensis" = Deltopecten illawarrensis1, "Pecten squamuliferus" = Squamuliferipecten squamuliferus1
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"Eurydesma cordata" = Eurydesma cordatum1, "Eurydesma elliptica n. sp." = Eurydesma cordatum, "Eurydesma sacculus" = Eurydesma cordatum1, "Eurydesma globosa n. sp." = Eurydesma cordatum
"Eurydesma elliptica n. sp." = Eurydesma cordatum Morris 1845 scallop
"Eurydesma globosa n. sp." = Eurydesma cordatum Morris 1845 scallop | |
"Modiolopsis simplex n. sp." = Stutchburia simplex, "? Cardinia recta n. sp." = Stutchburia recta
"Modiolopsis simplex n. sp." = Stutchburia simplex Dana 1847 clam "Illawarra" in Dana - loc according to Waterhouse
"? Cardinia recta n. sp." = Stutchburia recta Dana 1847 clam "Illawarra" in Dana - loc according to Waterhouse
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"Pachydomus levis" = Pyramus laevis1, "Pyramus laevis" = Pyramus laevis2, "Pachydomus cuneatus" = Pyramus laevis1, "Pyramus ellipticus n. sp." = Pyramus laevis, "Pachydomus antiquatus" = Pyramus laevis1
"Pyramus ellipticus n. sp." = Pyramus laevis Sowerby 1838 clam | |
"Nucula concinna n. sp." = Polidevcia cryptica1
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Gastropoda | |
"Bellerophon undulatus n. sp." = Warthia micromphala
"Bellerophon undulatus n. sp." = Warthia micromphala Morris 1845 snail | |
""Patella" tenella n. sp." = Platyceras tenella Dana 1847 snail | |
"Pleurotomaria trifilata" = Pleurocinctosa trifilata, "Pleurotomaria nuda n. sp." = Pseudobaylea nuda, "Platyschisma oculus" = Keeneia ocula1
"Pleurotomaria trifilata" = Pleurocinctosa trifilata Dana 1847 snail
"Pleurotomaria nuda n. sp." = Pseudobaylea nuda Dana 1847 snail | |
? Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail |