Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.5° S, 150.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° S, 144.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Schellwienella burlingtoni zone, Goonoo Goonoo Mudstone Formation, Hastarian to Hastarian (358.9 - 340.0 Ma)

• from a single horizon "near the top of the Goonoo Goonoo Mudstone" in the Schellwienella cf. burlingtoni zone, which is "late Hastarian to earliest Molinacian" and older than Chadian according to Roberts et al. 1993

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

• "there is an abundance of disarticulated platycrinitids"

Collection methods: "brachiopods" are also present

Primary reference: K.S.W. Campbell and J. Bein. 1971. Some lower Carboniferous crinoids from New South Wales. Journal of Paleontology 45:419-436 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119337: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.10.2011

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