Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.6° S, 151.2° E: paleocoordinates 67.9° S, 158.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Correlative with the Berry and Broughton Formations, and assigned to the Echinalosia runnegari and E. wassi brachiopod zones by Briggs (1998), and to the APP4.2 palynomorph zone. The APP4.2 zone has its inferred base (266.8 Ma, according to calibrations in Laurie et al., 2016) nearly coincident with the base of the Wordian (266.9 in Wu et al., 2020), and ranges to the early Wuchiapingian. A sample 2 m below the top of the Broughton Formation yielded a radiometric date of 263.51 Ma, within the basal Capitanian (Metcalf et al., 2015), so the a Wordian age is assigned.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 136654: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2012

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