Where: Western Australia, Australia (28.9° S, 115.5° E: paleocoordinates 63.6° S, 97.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• "Ferruginous sandstone and conglomerate, resting unconformably on Coal-measures."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Harry Woodward; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: A. H. Foord. 1890. Notes on the palaeontology of Western Australia, continued. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 7:145-155 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131548: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
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Gastropoda | |
""Bellerophon" ? decussatus" = Retispira decussatus
""Bellerophon" ? decussatus" = Retispira decussatus Fleming 1828 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
""Discites" sp." = Nautilus (Discites)
""Discites" sp." = Nautilus (Discites) | |
"Orthoceras" sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pachydomus carinatus" = Myonia (Myomedia) carinata Morris 1845 clam | |
Stenolaemata | |
"Fenestella" sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Pseudosyringothyris dickinsi" = Myodelthyrium dickinsi7
"Pseudosyringothyris dickinsi" = Myodelthyrium dickinsi7 Thomas 1971 | |
Spirelytha fredericksi2 Archbold and Thomas 1984 | |
"Neospirifer hardmani" = Quadrospira hardmani3
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Strophomenata | |
"Cancrinella irwinensis" = Costatumulus irwinensis1
"Cancrinella irwinensis" = Costatumulus irwinensis1 Archbold 1983 | |
"Globiella foordi" = Cimmeriella foordi1
"Globiella foordi" = Cimmeriella foordi1 Etheridge 1903 | |
"Productus subquadratus" = Taeniothaerus subquadratus
"Productus subquadratus" = Taeniothaerus subquadratus Morris 1845 | |
"Chonetes pratti" = Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti6
"Chonetes pratti" = Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti6 Davidson 1859 | |