BMR ML58, Minilya River (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (23.7° S, 114.4° E: paleocoordinates 56.9° S, 91.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 130-139 feet above base of type section of Wandagee Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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 85228: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.12.2008

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Neochonetes (Sommeria) tenuicapillatus" = Neochonetes (Sommeriella) tenuicapillatus1
"Neochonetes (Sommeria) tenuicapillatus" = Neochonetes (Sommeriella) tenuicapillatus1 Archbold 1981
Conjoined shell
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Fusispirifer wandageensis n. sp.2 Archbold and Thomas 1987
Conjoined shell