Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.4° S, 150.9° E: paleocoordinates 69.8° S, 159.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gerringong Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Formerly Gerringong Volcanics. A sample 2 m below the top of the formation yielded a radiometric date of 263.51 Ma, within the basal Capitanian (Metcalf et al., 2015), but nearly all fossils come from the basal Westley Park Sandstone or Kiama Sandstone members. Therefore, a Wordian age is assigned.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by W.B. Clarke; reposited in the SM

• Collected by the Rev. W.B. Clarke and sent to Prof. Sedgwick

Primary reference: F. M'Coy. 1847. XXI. On the fossil botany and zoology of the rocks associated with the coal of Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20(133):226-236 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133342: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.09.2012

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