Gully 500 m northwest of West Tank, Giralia Station (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.7° S, 114.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 100.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miria Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, white, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• cream colored calcarenite 0.6-2.1m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Western Australian Museum

Primary reference: R. S. Craig. 1999. Late Cretaceous brachiopods of the Perth and Carnarvon Basins, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum (19)413-442 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153499: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 25.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Eohemithyris miriaensis n. sp. Craig 1999
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Liothyrella archboldi n. sp. Craig 1999