Where: Queensland, Australia (22.3° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 57.5° S, 140.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blenheim Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• From the Streptorhynchus pelicanensis bed. The pelicanensis fauna occurs near the top of the Blenheim Formation, and is likely equivalent to the Pseudostrophalosia ingelarensis zone (or possibly also P. clarkei zone) of Briggs (1998). These zones are correlated with the upper part of APP4.3 palynomorph zone or lower part of APP5 (Briggs, 1998). The APP4.3 zone was constrained as mid-Wuchiapingian age and APP5 as mid-Wuchiapingian through Changhsingian age by U-Pb dating in Laurie et al. (2016). However, overlying units in the Fort Cooper Coal Measures yield latest Wuchiapingian U-Pb ages (Phillips et al., 2018), constraining the upper Blenheim Fm to Wuchiapingian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Armstrong. 1970. Syringothyrid brachiopods from the Permian of eastern Australia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 136(2):135-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101560: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.12.2010

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