Locality GC 8, Marilla Anticline (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.9° S, 114.2° E: paleocoordinates 49.8° S, 100.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miria Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Late Maastrichtian age according to Henderson et al. (1992)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontological Collection (CPC)

Primary reference: R. O. Brunnschweiler. 1966. Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia I: the heteromorph Lytoceratina. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 58:1-58 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190313: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites lechitides n. sp. Brunnschweiler 1966 ammonite