Baracooda Pool, Arthur River (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.0° S, 115.5° E: paleocoordinates 59.7° S, 99.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Gibb Maitland, H.W.B. Talbot

• Repository: Geological Survey of Western Australia

Primary reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1903. Descriptions of Carboniferous fossils from the Gascoyne District, Western Australia, collected by Mr. A. Gibb Maitland, government geologist. Western Australia Geological Survey Bulletin 10:1-31 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131606: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
""Seminula" sp." = Athyris (Seminula), "Cleiothyris baracoodensis n. sp." = Cleiothyridina baracoodensis
""Seminula" sp." = Athyris (Seminula) M'Coy 1844
"Cleiothyris baracoodensis n. sp." = Cleiothyridina baracoodensis Etheridge 1903
Cleiothyris macleayana var. baracoodensis
Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Aulosteges baracoodensis n. sp. Etheridge 1903
 Productida - Productidae