Lower Inflatia elegans subzone, Beds 41-1 & 17-14, Woolooma Fm., NSW (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.1° S, 151.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 152.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Woolooma Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• Delepinea aspinosa zone / Inflatia elegans subzone of Visean (V3a) age.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

• none given, only strat column with no key.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: This is a composite of two beds: 17-4 of Section 17 Back Creek and 41-1 of Section 44 Upper Rouchel.

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 46911: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 26.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae