Where: Western Australia, Australia (28.8° S, 114.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° S, 57.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Newmarracarra Limestone Formation (Champion Bay Group), Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)
• Correlated with the ovalis/laeviuscula Zones of the lower Bajocian by Hall (1989).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by P.E. Playfair
• Specimens lost in transit from Arkell back to Western Australia
Primary reference: W. J. Arkell and P. E. Playford. 1954. The Bajocian ammonites of Western Australia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 237:547-605 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 171210: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Otoites woodwardi, Pseudotoites semiornatus, Pseudotoites robiginosus, Pseudotoites fasciculatus n. sp.
Otoites woodwardi Crick 1894 ammonite
Pseudotoites semiornatus Crick 1894 ammonite
Pseudotoites robiginosus Crick 1894 ammonite
Pseudotoites fasciculatus n. sp. Arkell 1954 ammonite | |
Witchellia australica n. sp.
Witchellia australica n. sp. Arkell 1954 ammonite |