Oaky Creek section, near Sherwood, 11 miles WNW of Kempsey (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.0° S, 152.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° S, 162.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Booral Formation, Namurian (330.9 - 318.7 Ma)

• Not actuall Booral, but an contemporaneous formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and lithified sandstone

• alternating thin beds of mudstone and lithic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K.S.W. Campbell. 1962. Marine fossils from the Carboniferous glacial rocks of New South Wales. Journal of Paleontology 36(1):38-52 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59786: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Cravenoceratidae
Cravenoceras kullatinense n. sp. Campbell 1962 ammonite