Where: Queensland, Australia (21.0° S, 148.1° E: paleocoordinates 57.3° S, 145.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Stratigraphic position within Moonlight Sandstone unknown. However, the Moonlight Sandstone typically contains brachiopod zones 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, the Moonlight Sandstone brachiopod 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.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse and J. S. Jell. 1983. The sequence of Permian rocks and faunas near Exmoor Homestead south of Collinsville, north Bowen Basin. Permian Geology of Queensland 231-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105130: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.02.2011

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