Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.9° S, 114.2° E: paleocoordinates 49.8° S, 100.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miria Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Late Maastrichtian age according to Henderson et al. (1992)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
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 190313: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites lechitides n. sp.
Baculites lechitides n. sp. Brunnschweiler 1966 ammonite |