Coral Creek Mouth, Bowen River Coalfield (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.6° S, 147.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 65.8° S, 135.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blenheim Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• From the Streptorhynchus pelicanensis bed, correlated with the Pseudostrophalosia ingelarensis zone by Briggs (1998).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: K. S. W. Campbell. 1965. Australian Permian terebratuloids. Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 68:3-146 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90014: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2009

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae
Gilledia pelicanensis n. sp. Campbell 1965