Gloucester-Barrington, Lower Burindi Group (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.0° S, 151.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° S, 145.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burindi Group, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• upper part of the Lower Burindi Group; Upper Tournaisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous mudstone

• dark calcareous fairly homogeneous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. M. Cvancara. 1958. Invertebrate fossils from the Lower Carboniferous of New South Wales. Journal of Paleontology 32(5):846-888 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67217: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Linguaphillipsia divergens n. sp.
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Maxigoniatitidae
Beyrichoceras sp.
Beyrichoceras sp. Foord 1903 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer amblys n. sp.
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer lirellus n. sp.
Spirifer lirellus n. sp. Cvancara 1958
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Phricodothyris campbelli n. sp., Phricodothyris sp.
Phricodothyris sp. George 1932
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris planimedia n. sp.
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella fortimuscula n. sp.
Rhipidomella fortimuscula n. sp. Cvancara 1958
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria verulamensis n. sp.
Schizophoria verulamensis n. sp. Cvancara 1958
Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Pustula abbotti
Pustula abbotti
subspecies larga
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptagonia cf. analoga
Leptagonia cf. analoga Phillips 1836
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes gloucesterensis n. sp.
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Plicochonetes sexfidus n. sp.
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Cyathoclisia laxicolumnaris n. sp.
Cyathoclisia laxicolumnaris n. sp. horn coral