Vertebrate fossil assemblage 9 (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.0° S, 146.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° S, 141.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Home Station Member (Snowy Plains Formation), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

• High-energy river channel (Garvey, 2005)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Tom Darragh; unnamed others in 1990; n/a

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Repository: Museum Victoria, Melbourne (NMV)

Primary reference: T. Holland, A. Warren, Z. Johanson, J. Long, K. Parker and J. Garvey. 2007. A new species of Barameda (Rhizodontida) and heterochrony in the rhizodontid pectoral fin. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):295-315 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136241: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 24.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Rhizodontida -
Barameda mitchelli n. sp. Holland et al. 2007 lobe-finned fish
Barameda decipiens Woodward 1906 lobe-finned fish