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Baker, Carnarvon Shire, Western Australia, Australia

FormationBaker
Age:279 - 272 Ma
Permian
IntervalKungurian
Lithologysiltstone, sandstone, "siliciclastic"
Number of Collections4
Number of Occurrences6

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
BMR F17009Carnarvon Shire, Western Australia, AustraliaBaker
BMR F17023Carnarvon Shire, Western Australia, AustraliaBaker
UWA locality C37.1Carnarvon Shire, Western Australia, AustraliaBaker

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Coolkilya272 - 269 Ma
Permian
siliciclastic, sandstone86
Cundlego279 - 272 Ma
Permian
siliciclastic, siltstone, "shale", sandstone35
Nalbia279 - 272 Ma
Permian
sandstone17
Quinnanie290 - 279 Ma
Permian
shale, sandstone, siltstone, "siliciclastic"16
Wandagee279 - 272 Ma
Permian
limestone, siltstone, "siliciclastic", sandstone, "shale", marl, claystone147

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Fusispirifer sp.
genus
6Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Spiriferida : Trigonotretidae : Fusispirifer279.3 - 272.3 Ma
Permian
Imperiospira campbelli
species
7Animalia : Brachiopoda : Rhynchonellata : Spiriferida : Trigonotretidae : Imperiospira : Imperiospira campbelli279.3 - 272.3 Ma
Permian
Permorthotetes teicherti
species
7Animalia : Brachiopoda : Strophomenata : Orthotetida : Orthotetidae : Werriea : Permorthotetes teicherti279.3 - 272.3 Ma
Permian
Svalbardia thomasi
species
7Animalia : Brachiopoda : Strophomenata : Productida : Rugosochonetidae : Svalbardia : Svalbardia thomasi279.3 - 272.3 Ma
Permian
Lialosia kimberleyensis
species
7Animalia : Brachiopoda : Strophomenata : Productida : Strophalosiidae : Lialosia : Lialosia kimberleyensis279.3 - 272.3 Ma
Permian
Undulomya singaporensis
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Sanguinolitidae : Undulomya : Undulomya singaporensis279.3 - 272.3 Ma
Permian

References

Dickins J. M. (1956) Permian pelecypods from the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 29, 1-42
Thomas G. A. (1958) The Permian Orthotetacea of Western Australia, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 39, 1-158
Archbold N. W. (1981) Svalbardia (Chonetidina, Brachiopoda) from the Kungurian (Permian) of Western Australia, Alcheringa 5, 1-8
Archbold N. W. (1987) Studies on Western Australian Permian brachiopods 7. The strophalosiid genera Wyndhamia Booker, 1929, Lialosia Muir-Wood and Cooper, 1960 and Liveringia gen. nov., Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 99, 19-35
Archbold N. W., Thomas G. A. (1987) Fusispirifer (Spiriferidae, Brachiopoda) from the Permian of Australia and Afghanistan, Alcheringa 11, 175-203
Archbold N. W., Thomas G. A. (1993) Imperiospira, a new Western Australian Permian Spiriferidae (Brachiopoda), Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 15, 313-328
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