BMR KNF73, Bruten's Old Yard, Cherrabun Station (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.7° S, 125.6° E: paleocoordinates 55.3° S, 115.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Noonkanbah Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• 745 feet above base of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Thomas. 1958. The Permian Orthotetacea of Western Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 39:1-158 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84851: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Blastoidea
 Fissiculata - Phaenoschismatidae
Thaumatoblastus "sp. nov."4
Thaumatoblastus "sp. nov."4 Wanner 1924 blastoid
2 radial plates
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Neoplatycrinus miamiaensis4
Neoplatycrinus miamiaensis4 Webster and Jell 1992 Sea lily
Columnal, 2 radials, 2 tegmen plates
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Trigonotreta dickinsi n. sp." = Koenigoria dickinsi2, "Neospirifer postplicatus n. sp." = Quadrospira postplicatus2
"Trigonotreta dickinsi n. sp." = Koenigoria dickinsi2 Archbold and Thomas 1986
4 DV, 8 VV
"Neospirifer postplicatus n. sp." = Quadrospira postplicatus2 Archbold and Thomas 1986
Articulated shell
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
Hoskingia cf. grandis3
Hoskingia cf. grandis3 Campbell 1965
Several fragments
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae
? Hemiptychina sp.3
? Hemiptychina sp.3 Waagen 1882
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
"Wyndhamia multispinifera" = Arcticalosia multispinifera1
"Wyndhamia multispinifera" = Arcticalosia multispinifera1 Prendergast 1943
Submature dorsal valve
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
"? Permorthotetes aff. guppyi" = Orthotetes guppyi
"? Permorthotetes aff. guppyi" = Orthotetes guppyi Thomas 1958
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
"Streptorhynchus crassimurus n. sp." = Arctitreta crassimurus
"Streptorhynchus crassimurus n. sp." = Arctitreta crassimurus Thomas 1958
1Archbold 1987; 2Archbold and Thomas 1986; 3Campbell 1965; 4Webster and Jell 1992