Fossil Cliff sample 83, Irwin River Area: Sakmarian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Beyrichicopida - Aechminidae
Aechmina reticulata Ferdinando 2001
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
? Proparaparchites informal sp. A Cooper 1941
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
Hollinella pirajnoensis Ferdinando 2001
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
Kirkbya informal sp. A Jones 1859
Kirkbya fossilcliffi Ferdinando 2001
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Quasillitidae
Graphiadactyllis jonesi Ferdinando 2001
Graphiadactyllis australae (Crespin 1945)
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Healdiidae
? Healdianella moryi Ferdinando 2001
Healdia informal sp. A Roundy 1926
Healdia obtusa Ferdinando 2001
Healdia crespinae Ferdinando 2001
Healdia westraliaensis Ferdinando 2001
Healdia irwinensis Fleming 1985
Healdia petchorica Guseva 1971
Healdia chapmani Crespin 1945
Cribroconcha ludbrookae (Fleming 1985)
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdiacypris informal sp. A Bradfield 1935
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 28.9° South, 115.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:63.6° South, 97.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Sakmarian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Sakmarian
Age range of interval:293.52000 - 290.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Holmwood Member:Fossil Cliff
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 6.60 m above base of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,brown lithified "limestone"
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,acetic,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:108238
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-04-26 14:47:58 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-26 14:47:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33494. D. Ferdinando. 2001. Ostracode and foraminiferal taxonomy and paleoecology of the Holmwood Shale, northern Perth Basin, Western Australia. 1-326 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]