Also known as Small point between Wasp Head and Point Upright

Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.7° S, 150.3° E: paleocoordinates 64.8° S, 170.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wasp Head Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• 200 feet stratigraphically above the unconformity with the pre-Permian strata.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: B. Runnegar. 1967. Desmodont bivalves from the Permian of eastern Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 96:1-108 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133744: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.09.2012, edited by Pete Wagner

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