ammonites
M9, Counsel Creek Quarry, Maria Island (Permian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.6° S, 148.1° E: paleocoordinates 75.1° S, 179.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Counsel Creek Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.5 Ma)

• Middle of unit. Bernacchian Stage, T5.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. M. Reid. 2003. Permian Bryozoa of Tasmania and New South Wales: systematics and their use in Tasmanian biostratigraphy. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir 28:1-133 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116532: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.09.2011

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