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 53.1° S, 164.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Booral Formation, Westphalian (318.7 - 307.5 Ma)

• Not actuall Booral, but an contemporaneous formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and mudstone

• thin beds of siltstone and minor banded mudstone

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 59785: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Paraconularia nefarius n. sp. Campbell 1962 jellyfish
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus cf. tenuicollis M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral
McCoy
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Sanguinolites woolnoughi n. sp. Campbell 1962 clam
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblochondria histion n. sp. Campbell 1962 scallop
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Peruvispira kempseyensis n. sp." = Montospira kempseyensis
"Peruvispira kempseyensis n. sp." = Montospira kempseyensis Campbell 1962 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer pristinus Maxwell 1951
Maxwell
 Spiriferinida - Reticulariinidae
Spinuliplica spinulosa Campbell 1961
Campbell 1961
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita magnicarina Campbell 1961
Campbell 1961
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Levipustula levis Maxwell 1951
Maxwell
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella cerva
Campbell 1961
Fenestella micropora Crockford 1949
micropora medeola n. subsp.
Fenestella macleayensis n. sp. Campbell 1962
Fenestella osbornei Crockford 1949