BMR PB14, Fossil Ridge, Irwin River Area: Sakmarian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Solenida - Konduriidae
? Palaeosolen badgeraensis Dickins 1963
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Sanguinolitidae
Praeundulomya subelongata Dickins 1963
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus koneckii Dickins 1963
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
? Plagiostoma informal sp. nov. Sowerby 1814
(1 measurement)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae
Atomodesma mytiloides Beyrich 1865
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Ptychomphalina talboti n. sp. Dickins 1963
recombined as Bradyospira talboti
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae
Spirelytha fredericksi Archbold and Thomas 1984
Archbold and Thomas 1984 3 specimens
(4 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 28.9° South, 115.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:63.6° South, 98.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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:Fossil Cliff
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:85843
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-01-16 19:46:45 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2009-01-16 19:46:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15626. J. M. Dickins. 1963. Permian pelecypods and gastropods from western Australia. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics 63:1-203 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

27556 N. W. Archbold and G. A. Thomas. 1984. Permian Elythidae (Brachiopoda) from Western Australia. Alcheringa 8:311-326 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]