Wombat Plateau, Site 761, basal interval (Triassic of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (16.8° S, 115.5° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 115.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Triasina oberhauseri foram zone, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• based on foraminifers; Triasina oberhauseri Biozone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section

Primary reference: U. Röhl, T. Dumont, U. Rad, R. Martini, and L. Zaninetti. 1991. Upper Triassic Tethyan Carbonates off Northwest Australia (Wombat Plateau, ODP Leg 122). Facies 25:211-252 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36900: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 19.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
"Triasina oberhauseri" = Aulosina oberhauseri Koehn-Zaninetti and Broennimann 1968
Aulotortus sp. Weynschenk 1956
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Duostominidae
Duostominidae indet. Brotzen 1963