Coimadai Creek, Lake Merrimu (Permian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.6° S, 144.5° E: paleocoordinates 69.0° S, 163.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Conglomerate lens some 12 meters in width and 2 meters in thickness.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: N. W. Archbold. 1991. Trigonotreta (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda) from the Early Permian of Victoria. Alcheringa 15:321-326 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90005: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta victoriae n. sp. Archbold 1991