Minilya River bed between Coolkilya Pool and Curdamurda Well (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (23.7° S, 114.4° E: paleocoordinates 56.9° S, 91.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Probably eroded from sandstone between 120 and 135 m above the Calceolispongia Stage.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained sandstone

• Prograding tidal sand bars

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with limonite

Primary reference: G. D. Webster. 1990. New Permian crinoids from Australia. Palaeontology 33:49-73 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120617: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Ampelocrinida - Calceolispongiidae
Calceolispongia abundans Teichert 1949 Sea lily