Mount Wellington (Strzelecki coll) (Permian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.9° S, 147.3° E: paleocoordinates 75.0° S, 177.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• 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 134052: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
"Productus subquadratus" = Taeniothaerus subquadratus
"Productus subquadratus" = Taeniothaerus subquadratus Morris 1845
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Productus brachythaerus" = Terrakea brachythaera
"Productus brachythaerus" = Terrakea brachythaera Morris 1845
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Spirifer subradiatus" = Spirifera subradiata
"Spirifer subradiatus" = Spirifera subradiata Sowerby 1844
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
"Pecten fittoni n. sp." = Undopecten fittoni
"Pecten fittoni n. sp." = Undopecten fittoni Morris 1845 scallop
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
"Pecten squamuliferus n. sp." = Squamuliferipecten squamuliferus
"Pecten squamuliferus n. sp." = Squamuliferipecten squamuliferus Morris 1845 scallop