West Wallsend Colliery (Permian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.9° S, 151.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 78.5° S, 141.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lambton Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.5 - 254.1 Ma)

• "The Borehole Seam is the lowermost part of the Lambton Subgroup and lies immediately above the Waratah Sandstone which forms the base of the Newcastle Coal Measures. The Borehole Seam is Kazanian in age." The Nobbys Tuff, which directly overlies the Lambton Formation, yielded a U-Pb age of 254.82 Ma (Laurie et al., 2016), indicating a Wuchiapingian age for the basal Newcastle Coal Measures.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected in 1984

Collection methods: salvage,

• AM: Australian Museum

Primary reference: A. Warren. 1997. A tetrapod fauna from the Permian of the Sydney Basin. Records of the Australian Museum 49(1):25-33 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136495: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Tetrapoda indet. Jaekel 1911 tetrapod
AM F97240, F97242, F97243
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet. tetrapod
AM F95421, 95122, vertebral column. AM F97231, cranial and postcranial remains