Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.7° S, 150.4° E: paleocoordinates 70.1° S, 158.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Assigned to APP4.2 (Echinalosia runnegari-E. wassi brachiopod zones) by Briggs (1998). According to the radiometric calibrations of Laurie et al. (2016), APP4.2 spans the latest Wordian through early Wuchiapingian. The overlying Broughton Formation yielded an early Capitanian radiometric age of 263.51 Ma in its upper part (Metcalf et al., 2015), so a late Wordian age is assigned to the Berry Formation here.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Australian Museum

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 135925: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.11.2012

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