Spring Hill, Van Diemen's Land (Strzelecki coll) (Permian to of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.4° S, 147.3° E: paleocoordinates 78.0° S, 162.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Roadian to Roadian (272.3 - 264.3 Ma)

• Permian rocks have not been re-located at Spring Hill, so provenance is uncertain. Fossils most typical of Middle Permian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by P.E. de Strzelecki in 1841-1842; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. E. Strzelecki. 1845. Physical descriptions of New South Wales and Van Dieman’s Land 1-462 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134050: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Pterinea macroptera n. sp." = Merismopteria macroptera
"Pterinea macroptera n. sp." = Merismopteria macroptera Morris 1845 oyster
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
"Orthonota compressa n. sp." = Stutchburia compressa
"Orthonota compressa n. sp." = Stutchburia compressa Morris 1845 clam
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
Megadesmus ovalis n. sp. Sowerby 1847 clam