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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