Where: Western Australia, Australia (17.4° S, 124.4° E: paleocoordinates 53.9° S, 113.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Noonkanbah Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Mr. Froggatt
• Repository: believed to be in Australian Museum but cannot be found (as of 1976). Originally in collection of W. Macleay.
Primary reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1889. Remarks on fossils of Permo-Carboniferous age, from north-western Australia, in the Macleay Museum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Second Series) 4:199-214 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131600: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Athyris macleayana n. sp." = Cleiothyridina macleayana
"Athyris macleayana n. sp." = Cleiothyridina macleayana Etheridge 1889 | |
Neospirifer amplus Archbold and Thomas 1986 | |
"Cyrtina australasica n. sp." = Hunzina australasica
"Cyrtina australasica n. sp." = Hunzina australasica Etheridge 1889 Cyrtina carbonaria var. australasica
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Stenolaemata | |
Stenopora sp. Lonsdale 1844 | |
"Evactinopora cf. crucialis" = Evactinostella crucialis
"Evactinopora cf. crucialis" = Evactinostella crucialis Hudleston 1883 "With regard to the specific separation of these I have some doubt, ... an example partaking of the characters of that called E. crucialis"
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Bivalvia | |
"Pachydomus aff. globosus" = Megadesmus globosus
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