Coolkilya Flat, Wandagee Hill (Permian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (23.7° S, 114.5° E: paleocoordinates 56.9° S, 91.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wandagee Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• Symphasial tooth spirals only

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: C. Teichert. 1940. Helicoprion in the Permian of Western Australia. Journal of Paleontology 14(2):140-149 [M. Clapham/D. Robinson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118112: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by David Robinson on 06.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• 1 of the H. davisii specimens was found in a nearby riverbed 2 years earlier, not in situ.
Chondrichthyes
 Eugeneodontiformes - Helicoprionidae
Helicoprion davisii Woodward 1886 chimaera
Symphasial teeth spirals only