Callytharra Springs 137 m (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.9° S, 115.5° E: paleocoordinates 60.6° S, 99.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Callytharra Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, micaceous, gray mudstone

• Dysaerobic normal marine conditions below storm wave base
• Grey or grey-green micaceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Dixon and D. W. Haig. 2004. Foraminifera and their habitats within a cool-water carbonate succession following glaciation, Early Permian (Sakmarian), Western Australia. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 34:308-324 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 95190: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Neochonetes pratti" = Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti
"Neochonetes pratti" = Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti Davidson 1859
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
"Heteralosia etheridgei" = Etherilosia etheridgei
"Heteralosia etheridgei" = Etherilosia etheridgei Prendergast 1943
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Mourlonia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail
Foraminifera
 Astrorhizacea - Psammosphaeridae
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
Trochammina spp. Parker and Jones 1859
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
 Hippocrepinacea - Hyperamminoididae
  - Spiroplectamminidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910