Giralia Anticline (Brunnschweiler collection, Miria Fm) (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.8° S, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.7° S, 100.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Miria Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Ammonite species assigned to formation based on Henderson et al. (1992), who correlated the rich upper ammonite unit in the Miria Formation with the upper Maastrichtian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified limestone

• calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontological Collection (CPC)

Primary reference: R. O. Brunnschweiler. 1966. Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia I: the heteromorph Lytoceratina. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 58:1-58 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190312: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
"Eubaculites carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus, "Eubaculites kossmati n. sp." = Eubaculites carinatus, "Eubaculites multicostatus n. sp." = Eubaculites carinatus
"Eubaculites carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite
"Eubaculites kossmati n. sp." = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite
"Eubaculites multicostatus n. sp." = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
"Neohamites rugatus" = Glyptoxoceras rugatum, "Glyptoxoceras rugatum" = Glyptoxoceras rugatum, "Neohamites giraliensis n. sp." = Glyptoxoceras rugatum, "Neohamites cardabiensis n. sp." = Glyptoxoceras rugatum, "Neohamites sofoulisi n. sp." = Glyptoxoceras rugatum, "Glyptoxoceras bullarense n. sp." = Glyptoxoceras rugatum, "Eudiplomoceras raggatti n. gen. n. sp." = Diplomoceras cylindraceum, "Diplomoceras cf. notabile" = Diplomoceras cylindraceum
"Neohamites rugatus" = Glyptoxoceras rugatum Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Glyptoxoceras rugatum" = Glyptoxoceras rugatum Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Neohamites giraliensis n. sp." = Glyptoxoceras rugatum Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Neohamites cardabiensis n. sp." = Glyptoxoceras rugatum Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Neohamites sofoulisi n. sp." = Glyptoxoceras rugatum Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Glyptoxoceras bullarense n. sp." = Glyptoxoceras rugatum Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Eudiplomoceras raggatti n. gen. n. sp." = Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite
"Diplomoceras cf. notabile" = Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite