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, medium-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy, calcareous mudstone
•bryozoa and brachiopod debris with a broad peak in the medium to coarse size
•fractions). Terrigenous mud matrix. Decreasing siliciclastic sand (mainly very fine) content upsection.
•Large bioclasts
•in random orientations
•or in small aligned clusters.
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 95195: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.04.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Gertholites sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral | |
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Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral | |
| Blastoidea | |
|
Neoschisma sp. Wanner 1924 blastoid | |
|
Notoblastus sp. Brown 1941 blastoid | |
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Rhopaloblastus sp. Wanner 1924 blastoid | |
| Crinoidea | |
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Synbathocrinus sp. Phillips 1836 Sea lily | |
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Apographiocrinus sp. Moore and Plummer 1940 Sea lily | |
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Actinocrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |