Also known as Bed 5.1
Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.7° S, 150.3° E: paleocoordinates 64.9° S, 170.9° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wasp Head Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• Originally given as Conjola, but this part is now the Wasp Head formation. Also, considered Artinskian at the time, but now considered Sakmarian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, coarse sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: B. Runnegar. 1969. Permian fossils from the Southern extremity of the Sydney Basin. In K. S. W. Campbell (ed.), Stratigraphy and Palaeontology. Essays in Honour of Dorothy Hill 276-298 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 214494: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 02.10.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Keeneia ocula Sowerby 1838 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Eurydesma cordatum Morris 1845 scallop | |
Pyramus laevis Sowerby 1838 clam
Australomya hillae n. gen. n. sp. Runnegar 1969 clam
Megadesmus globosus Sowerby 1838 clam | |
"Neoschizodus australis" = Schizodus australis
"Neoschizodus australis" = Schizodus australis Runnegar 1969 clam |