Gascoyne River, near Gascoyne Junction (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.0° S, 115.2° E: paleocoordinates 58.8° S, 92.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone

• At its type locality, the Cundlego Formation (Merlinleigh Sub-basin, Southern Carnarvon Basin) consists predominantly of grey siltstone interbedded with hummocky and swaley cross stratified sandstone with little bioturbation.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Tom Kapitany; reposited in the WAM

• Repository: Crystal World Australia, Devon Meadows, Australia (CWA)

Primary reference: R. J. Willink and T. Kapitany. 2024. The crinoid Jimbacrinus bostocki from the Lower Permian Cundlego Formation near Gascoyne Junction, Western Australia. Alcheringa 48:298-312more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 236547: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.10.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Neocamptocrinus occidentalis
Neocamptocrinus occidentalis Webster 1990 Sea lily
 Ampelocrinida - Calceolispongiidae
Jimbacrinus bostocki
Jimbacrinus bostocki Teichert 1954 Sea lily
Asteroidea
 Kermasida - Permasteridae
Ambigaster wandageensis
Ambigaster wandageensis Kesling 1969 sea star
Ophiuroidea
 Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
Teleosaster creasyi
Teleosaster creasyi Hunter and McNamara 2017 brittle star