Sample S08-61KD, Sonne Cruise 8, Wombat Plateau (Triassic of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (16.5° S, 115.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 115.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, white marl

• Whitish Crinoidal Marl

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve,

Primary reference: E. Kristan-Tollmann and F. Gramann. 1992. Paleontological evidence for the Triassic age of rocks dredged from the northern Exmouth Plateau (Tethyan foraminifers, echinoderms, and ostracodes). Proceedings Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results 122:463-474 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99843: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 25.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Foraminifera
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Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
"Cytherelloidea cf. unicostata" = Leviella unicostata
"Cytherelloidea cf. unicostata" = Leviella unicostata Bolz 1970 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
"Mostlerella sp." = Judahella
"Mostlerella sp." = Judahella ostracod
Holothuroidea
 Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
Eocaudina hexagona Kristan-Tollmann 1963 sea cucumber
Fissobractites subsymmetrica Kristan-Tollmann 1963 sea cucumber
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiacanthidae
Ophiacantha binitorulosa Kristan-Tollmann et al. 1979 brittle star
Ophiacantha subtilirugosa n. sp. Kristan-Tollmann and Gramann 1992 brittle star
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae
Ophioderma cf. waliabadensis Kristan-Tollmann et al. 1979 brittle star
 Phrynophiurida - Eospondylidae
Ophioflabellum cristatum Kristan-Tollmann et al. 1979 brittle star