NSW L112-6. Swain’s Gully, southwest of Somerton (Carboniferous of Australia)

Also known as 112-6, Namoi Formation, New South Wales, Australia

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.0° S, 150.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° S, 143.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Schellwienella burlingtonensis brachiopod zone, Namoi Formation (Parry Group), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Schellwienella cf. burlingtonensis zone of Tournaisian (Tn3) to early Visean (V1) age.

•165 m above the base of the Namoi Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and siltstone

• Thinly bedded mudstone and siltstone with minor conglomerate, litharenite, calcareous sandstone, siltstone and bioclastic limestone; rare tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Roberts. 1975. Early Carboniferous brachiopod zones of eastern Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 22(1):1-31 [N. Heim/N. Heim/N. Heim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46855: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 24.01.2005, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
 Terebratulida -
Terebratuloidea "n. gen." Gray 1840
designated n. gen. but no formal description given
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris cf. solida Campbell and Engel 1963
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Productida - Productellidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Monodechenella subquadrata2 Engel and Morris 1984 trilobite