Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.0° S, 125.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 114.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fairfield Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: core, chemical, mechanical,

• Playford (1976, p.6): Below a depth of 14 m, cores were continously recovered from the upper Fairfield Formation down to 63.4 m (total depth).

Primary reference: G. Playford. 1976. Plant microfossils from the Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 158:1-71 [W. Stein/N. Smith/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23141: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 10.07.2002

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