BMR Sp169, Reids Dome road (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (24.9° S, 148.3° E: paleocoordinates 60.1° S, 141.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peawaddy Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Mantuan Productus bed and Peawaddy Formation below Mantuan Productus bed.

•Assigned to the Echinalosia ovalis brachiopod zone and middle APP5 palynomorph zone by Briggs (1998). Laurie et al. (2016) constrained APP5 to the mid-Wuchiapingian through Changhsingian. Phillips et al. dated an ash bed within the Peawaddy Formation at 255.13 Ma and one from the top of the unit at 254.41 Ma, indicating a late Wuchiapingian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection (CPC)

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 136660: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Vacunella curvata Morris 1845 clam