Salisbury, Section 87, Bed 88-2, Flagstaff Sandstone, New South Wales (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.3° 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 / Inflatia elegans 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 46941: authorized by Noel Heim, entered by Noel Heim on 27.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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