Brownmore, Section 85, Flagstaff Sandstone, New South Wales (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.3° S, 151.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 152.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Flagstaff Sandstone Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• Delepinea aspinosa zone / Gigantoproductus tenuirugosus subzone of Visean (V3a) age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

• none given, only strat column with no key.

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 46922: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 26.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Productida - Productidae
Marginicinctus sp. Sutton 1938
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Productida - Linoproductidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844
 Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae