Where: Queensland, Australia (20.9° S, 148.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 64.4° S, 146.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moonlight Sandstone Member (Blenheim Formation), Wordian to Wordian (266.9 - 259.5 Ma)

• Presence of Terrakea brachythaera suggests an age within the E. runnegari/E. wassi zone, correlated with APP4.2 palynomorph zone (Briggs, 1998). The APP4.2 zone was constrained as late Wordian to mid-Wuchiapingian age by U-Pb dating in Laurie et al. (2016). In the Sydney Basin, these species are common in the Broughton Formation, dated as older than early Capitanian (a sample 2 m below the top yielded a radiometric date of 262.51 Ma in Metcalf et al., 2015). As a result, a Wordian-Capitanian age is assigned here.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: D. J. C. Briggs. 1998. Permian Productidina and Strophalosiidina from the Sydney-Bowen Basin and New England Orogen: systematics and biostratigraphic significance. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 19:1-258 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104741: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.02.2011

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