Woondum (Triassic of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (26.3° S, 152.7° E: paleocoordinates 58.0° S, 141.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Traveston Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Meekoceras gracilitatis Zone is lower Smithian subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green shale and sandstone

• The host rocks are massively bedded olive-green and grey-green shales having infrequent thin friable sandstones interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The specimens are held in the University of Queensland

Primary reference: B. Runnegar. 1969. A Lower Triassic Ammonoid Fauna from Southeast Queensland. Journal of Paleontology 43(3):818-828 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44044: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 31.08.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Ophiuroidea
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Ophiuroidea indet.
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Dieneroceratidae
Dieneroceras sp.
Dieneroceras sp. Spath 1934 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
? Arctoceras sp.
? Arctoceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
Flemingites sp.
Flemingites sp. Waagen 1892 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
"? Pseudohedenstroemia sp." = Hedenstroemia
"? Pseudohedenstroemia sp." = Hedenstroemia Waagen 1895 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Paranoritidae
? Paranorites sp., Paranorites queenslandicus
? Paranorites sp. Waagen 1895 ceratite
Paranorites queenslandicus Runnegar 1969 ceratite
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Latisageceras woondumense
Latisageceras woondumense Runnegar 1969 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Warthia sp.
Warthia sp. Waagen 1880 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam