Where: Western Australia, Australia (28.9° S, 115.6° E: paleocoordinates 63.6° S, 98.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fossil Cliff Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. M. Dickins. 1963. Permian pelecypods and gastropods from western Australia. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics 63:1-203 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85842: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Quadratonucula australiensis Dickins 1963 clam | |
Stutchburia hoskingae Dickins 1963 clam |