Big Creek, Section 90, Bed 90-2, Flagstaff Sandstone, New South Wales (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.2° S, 151.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 152.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Delepinea aspinosa zone / Gigantoproductus tenirugosus 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 46932: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 26.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"Chonetoid" sp.
"Chonetoid" sp.
designated n. gen., but no formal description given
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Marginicinctus sp.
Marginicinctus sp. Sutton 1938
 Productida - Productellidae
Scoloconcha sp.
Scoloconcha sp. Gordon 1966
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Pustula abbotti, Echinoconchus gradatus
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Fluctuaria campbelli
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rugosochonetes careyi
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptagonia analoga
Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
"Delthyris" papilionis
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Kitakamithyris ? uniplicata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Unispirifer striatoconvolutus
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
Brachythyris sp.
Brachythyris sp. M'Coy 1844
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina segmentata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp.
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae
Balanoconcha elliptica
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria verulamensis