Bed 4.6, Emily Miller Beach (Permian of Australia)

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

• fine to coarse sandstone with thin pebble conglomerates

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
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Keeneia ocula Sowerby 1838 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Eurydesmatidae
Eurydesma cordatum Morris 1845 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
Pyramus laevis Sowerby 1838 clam
Australomya hillae n. gen. n. sp. Runnegar 1969 clam
Megadesmus globosus Sowerby 1838 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
"Neoschizodus australis" = Schizodus australis
"Neoschizodus australis" = Schizodus australis Runnegar 1969 clam