ammonites
Merlinleigh Homestead, 4.5 miles SW (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (24.4° S, 115.2° E: paleocoordinates 57.8° S, 92.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norton Formation, Kungurian (279.5 - 272.5 Ma)

• 97 feet above base

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. M. Dickins. 1961. The gastropod Platyteichum in the Permian of Western Australia. Palaeontology 4(1):131-137 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107318: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.04.2011

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