Geraldton Area (Jurassic of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (28.8° S, 114.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.7° S, 70.6° E (Wright 2013)

• 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, R.O. Brunnschweiler in 1953

• Repository: Commonwealth Paleontological Collection, Canberra (destroyed in a fire).

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 171220: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Otoitidae
Otoites antipodus Arkell 1954 ammonite
? Otoites australis Crick 1894 ammonite
Pseudotoites robiginosus Crick 1894 ammonite
Pseudotoites leicharti Neumayr 1885 ammonite
Pseudotoites fasciculatus Arkell 1954 ammonite
Pseudotoites semiornatus Crick 1894 ammonite
Pseudotoites championensis Crick 1894 ammonite
Pseudotoites spitiformis Arkell 1954 ammonite
Pseudotoites brunnschweileri n. sp. Arkell 1954 ammonite
Pseudotoites emilioides Arkell 1954 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sonniniidae
"Sonninia playfordi" = Sonninia (Euhoploceras) playfordi, "Fontannesia clarkei" = Newmarracarroceras clarkei, "Fontannesia whitehousei" = Newmarracarroceras clarkei
"Sonninia playfordi" = Sonninia (Euhoploceras) playfordi Arkell 1954 ammonite
"Fontannesia clarkei" = Newmarracarroceras clarkei Crick 1894 ammonite
"Fontannesia whitehousei" = Newmarracarroceras clarkei Crick 1894 ammonite