BMR MG259, Minilya River (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (23.7° S, 114.4° E: paleocoordinates 56.9° S, 91.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nalbia Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• 43 to 60 m from the top of the Wandagee Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. W. Archbold and G. A. Thomas. 1984. Permian Elythidae (Brachiopoda) from Western Australia. Alcheringa 8:311-326 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85207: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.12.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Spirelytha miloradovichi n. sp. Archbold and Thomas 1984
Conjoined shell
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
"Spiriferella australasica" = Hunzina australasica
"Spiriferella australasica" = Hunzina australasica Etheridge 1889
Ventral valve