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
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
Gastropoda | |
"Mourlonia ? humilis" = Platyzona humilis
"Mourlonia ? humilis" = Platyzona humilis de Koninck 1877 snail | |
""Euphemus" ? orbignii" = Euphemites dorbignii
""Euphemus" ? orbignii" = Euphemites dorbignii Portlock 1843 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
Parallelodon ? subarguta De Koninck 1877 clam | |
""Pterinea" ? macroptera" = Merismopteria macroptera
""Pterinea" ? macroptera" = Merismopteria macroptera Morris 1845 oyster | |
"Aviculopecten ? tenuicollis" = Etheripecten tenuicollis
"Aviculopecten ? tenuicollis" = Etheripecten tenuicollis Dana 1847 scallop | |
Strophomenata | |
""Productus" ? brachythaerus" = Terrakea brachythaera
""Productus" ? brachythaerus" = Terrakea brachythaera Morris 1845 |