Jimba Jimba Station, crinoid slab (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.0° S, 115.2° E: paleocoordinates 58.4° S, 91.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Cundlego Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Kevin Davy, Chris Johnston, Tom Titherspoon

Primary reference: G. D. Webster and P. A. Jell. 1999. New Permian crinoids from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1):279-340 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120603: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Archaeoisocrinus occiduaustralis n. gen. n. sp. Webster and Jell 1999 Sea lily
 Ampelocrinida - Calceolispongiidae
Jimbacrinus bostocki Teichert 1954 Sea lily