Gascoyne Junction (WAM collection) (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.1° S, 115.2° E: paleocoordinates 58.4° S, 91.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cundlego Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone

• Swaley cross-stratification indicates shoreface environment

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the WAM

Primary reference: A. W. Hunter and K. J. McNamara. 2017. Prolonged co-existence of 'archaic' and 'modern' Palaeozoic ophiuroids - evidence from the early Permian, Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16:891-907 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194355: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Ophiuroidea
 Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
Teleosaster creasyi n. gen. n. sp.
Teleosaster creasyi n. gen. n. sp. Hunter and McNamara 2017 brittle star