North of R. Croker House (Carboniferous to of Australia)

Also known as Wallabadah

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.6° S, 150.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° S, 144.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Schellwienella burlingtoni zone, Goonoo Goonoo Mudstone Formation, Hastarian to Hastarian (360.7 - 345.0 Ma)

• from a single horizon "near the top of the Goonoo Goonoo Mudstone" in the Schellwienella cf. burlingtoni zone, which is "late Hastarian to earliest Molinacian" and older than Chadian according to Roberts et al. 1993

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

• "mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

• "there is an abundance of dissociated crowns and stems... Cups are rare, and no whole crowns have been found"

Collection methods: mechanical,

• "prepared with the use of an Airbrasive machine"

Primary reference: K.S.W. Campbell and J. Bein. 1971. Some lower Carboniferous crinoids from New South Wales. Journal of Paleontology 45:419-436 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119334: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Manillacrinus sp. Campbell and Bein 1971 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
? Platycrinites "sp. 1" Miller 1821 Sea lily
? Platycrinites "sp. 2" Miller 1821 Sea lily
Platycrinites testudo n. sp. Campbell and Bein 1971 Sea lily
? Platycrinites crokeri n. sp. Campbell and Bein 1971 Sea lily
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Disparida - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus sp. Phillips 1836 Sea lily