Railway well near Bringo (765366): Early/Lower Bajocian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae
Stephanoceras (Stemmatoceras) cf. subcoronatum (Oppel 1856)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 28.7° South, 114.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° South, 57.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bajocian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Bajocian
Age range of interval:170.90000 - 168.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Champion Bay Formation:Newmarracarra Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Correlated with the ovalis/laeviuscula Zones of the lower Bajocian by Hall (1989).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Old UWA collection. Specimens lost in transit from Arkell back to Western Australia.
Metadata
Database number:171226
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-04 23:17:25 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-04 23:17:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
55711. W. J. Arkell and P. E. Playford. 1954. The Bajocian ammonites of Western Australia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 237:547-605 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]