Giralia Anticline, west flank, north end (Paleocene to of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.8° S, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.1° S, 100.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pirie calcarenite Formation, Middle Paleocene to Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 55.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone

• calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. J. McNamara and G. M. Philip. 1980. Australian Tertiary schizasterid echinoids. Alcheringa 4(1):47-65 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204581: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
  - Corystusidae
Cardabia bullarensis n. gen. n. sp.
Cardabia bullarensis n. gen. n. sp. Foster and Philip 1978 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster (Paraster) carinatus n. sp. McNamara and Philip 1980 heart urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Giraliaster jubileensis n. gen. n. sp.
Giraliaster jubileensis n. gen. n. sp. Foster and Philip 1978 sea urchin