Southern Van Diemen's Land (Huon area) (Permian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (43.2° S, 147.1° E: paleocoordinates 77.9° S, 172.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Probably a correlate of the Cascades Group (Banks). Description of lithology (limonite-coated molds in white siltstone) and presence of small Peruvispira gastropods are very similar to Deep Bay Formation (MEC field observation).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, red, white siltstone

• Finely mottled pink and white siltstone with angular sand-grade clasts of quartz and larger clasts of (?) chlorite schist and moulds of fossils.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by George Frankland

• Given to Charles Darwin by surveyor-general George Frankland when Darwin visited Hobart in February 1836.

Primary reference: C. Darwin. 1844. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands Visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle 1-175 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120532: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Stenopora sp. Lonsdale 1844
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
"Strophalosia cf. jukesi" = Wyndhamia jukesi
"Strophalosia cf. jukesi" = Wyndhamia jukesi Etheridge 1880
BMNH 19298
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Peruvispira allandalensis" = Keeneia allandalensis
"Peruvispira allandalensis" = Keeneia allandalensis Fletcher 1958 snail