Harper's Hill, Hunter Valley (W.B. Clarke coll) (Permian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.7° S, 151.5° E: paleocoordinates 61.8° S, 169.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Allandale Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, volcaniclastic, gray, green sandstone

• A volcanic grit of greenish grey colour, consisting principally of feldspar, and being in some parts slightly, in other parts highly calcareous when the rock assumes a compact aspect

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by W.B. Clarke; reposited in the SM

• Collected by the Rev. W.B. Clarke and sent to Prof. Sedgwick

Primary reference: F. M'Coy. 1847. XXVIII. On the fossil botany and zoology of the rocks associated with the coal of Australia. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20(134):298-312 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133748: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyschisma rotundatum
Platyschisma rotundatum Morris 1845 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Platyschisma oculus" = Keeneia ocula
"Platyschisma oculus" = Keeneia ocula Sowerby 1838 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
"Orthonota compressa" = Stutchburia compressa
"Orthonota compressa" = Stutchburia compressa Morris 1845 clam
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
"Pecten subquinquelineatus n. sp." = Etheripecten subquinquelineatus
"Pecten subquinquelineatus n. sp." = Etheripecten subquinquelineatus M'Coy 1847 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Modiola crassissima n. sp." = Merismopteria imbricata
"Modiola crassissima n. sp." = Merismopteria imbricata Dana 1847 oyster