Big Creek, Section 90, Bed 90-6, Unnamed Fm. above Flagstaff SS. (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: Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• Unnamed formation above Flagstaff Sandstone.

•Rhipidomella fortimuscula zone of Visean (V3b) 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 46935: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 26.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella fortimuscula
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria verulamensis
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina segmentata
 Athyridida - Retziidae
Eumetria mona
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Podtsheremia sp., Spirifer lirellus
Podtsheremia sp. Kalashnikov 1966
Spirifer lirellus Cvancara 1958
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Kitakamithyris ? uniplicata
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Pustula larga
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Fluctuaria campbelli
 Productida - Productellidae
Eomarginifera sp., Krotovia sp.
Eomarginifera sp. Muir-Wood 1930
Krotovia sp. Fredericks 1928
 Productida - Productidae
Marginicinctus ? sp.
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Orthotetes australis