Ironstone Ridge, south-east of Yeeda Station, on the Fitzroy River (Permian to of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.4° S, 124.6° E: paleocoordinates 55.2° S, 112.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Noonkanbah Formation, Artinskian to Artinskian (290.1 - 272.3 Ma)

• Presumably Noonkanbah Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous sandstone

• Sandy ironstone crammed with fossils

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mr. Froggatt

• Repository: Most likely in Australian Museum. 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 131602: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Species not illustrated, many identifications dubious.
Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
"Mourlonia ? humilis" = Platyzona humilis
"Mourlonia ? humilis" = Platyzona humilis de Koninck 1877 snail
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
""Euphemus" ? orbignii" = Euphemites dorbignii
""Euphemus" ? orbignii" = Euphemites dorbignii Portlock 1843 snail
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon ? subarguta De Koninck 1877 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
""Pterinea" ? macroptera" = Merismopteria macroptera
""Pterinea" ? macroptera" = Merismopteria macroptera Morris 1845 oyster
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
"Aviculopecten ? tenuicollis" = Etheripecten tenuicollis
"Aviculopecten ? tenuicollis" = Etheripecten tenuicollis Dana 1847 scallop
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
""Productus" ? brachythaerus" = Terrakea brachythaera
""Productus" ? brachythaerus" = Terrakea brachythaera Morris 1845