BMR GW78, Callytharra Springs (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.9° S, 115.5° E: paleocoordinates 60.6° S, 99.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Callytharra Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Basal bed of Callytharra Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. W. Archbold. 1980. Studies on Western Australian Permian brachiopods 1. The family Anopliidae (Chonetidina). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 92:181-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84579: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Tomiopsis woodwardi n. sp. Archbold and Thomas 1986
Incomplete articulated shell
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
Tornquistia occidentalis n. sp. Archbold 1980
Articulated shell