Where: Western Australia, Australia (28.9° S, 115.5° E: paleocoordinates 63.6° S, 97.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fossil Cliff Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• From lowermost limestone bed, limestone band below Round Hill, hard limestone band
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
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 85848: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia | |
"Conocardium" sp. Bronn 1835 | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus koneckii n. sp.
Modiolus koneckii n. sp. Dickins 1963 mussel | |
? Streblopteria sp. McCoy 1851 scallop | |
Stutchburia hoskingae Dickins 1963 clam | |
Edmondia prichardi Dickins 1963 clam | |
Anthraconeilo "sp. nov." Girty 1912 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Bellerophon cf. formani Dickins 1963 snail
Retispira irwinensis Dickins 1963 snail | |
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Baylea perthensis, "Mourlonia (Pseudobaylea) freneyensis" = Pseudobaylea freneyensis
Baylea perthensis Dickins 1963 snail
"Mourlonia (Pseudobaylea) freneyensis" = Pseudobaylea freneyensis Dickins 1963 snail |