UQ L5158, North Head, Ulladulla (Permian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.3° S, 150.5° E: paleocoordinates 70.4° S, 162.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Echinalosia maxwelli brachiopod zone, Wandrawandian Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• From siltstone 0.2 m below contorted zone, about 85-105 m above base of Formation. Brachiopods suggest the upper Echinalosia maxwelli zone, correlated with the APP3.3 palynomorph zone (Briggs, 1998). There are no direct radiometric constraints on APP3.3, although the top of the underlying APP3.2 is around 271.6 Ma (Laurie et al., 2016), placing it near the Kungurian-Roadian boundary or in the lower Roadian. Strata in Western Australia assigned to APP4.1 yielded U-Pb ages of 269.25 Ma or younger, constraining the upper boundary of APP3.3 to the late Roadian. As a result, APP3.3 appears to fall entirely within the Roadian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified siltstone

• Fine-grained sediments indicate environment below wave base, and presence of slumps at Warden Head suggests prodelta rather than offshore.

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 104854: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia maxwelli Waterhouse 1964
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Terrakea concava" = Paucispinauria concava
"Terrakea concava" = Paucispinauria concava Waterhouse 1964