Shoalhaven River near Nowra (Permian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.9° S, 150.6° E: paleocoordinates 70.3° S, 159.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Assigned to the Echinalosia robusta/hanloni brachiopod zone and lower APP4.2 palynomorph zone by Briggs (1998). Laurie et al., (2016) inferred an age of 266.8 Ma for the base of APP4.2 on the basis of radiometric constraints, which places it coincident with the base of the Wordian (266.9 Ma in West Texas; Wu et al., 2020).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Australian Museum, Sydney

Primary reference: C. F. Laseron. 1910. Palaeontology of the lower Shoalhaven River. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 44:190-225 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161846: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Productus brachythaerus" = Terrakea brachythaera
"Productus brachythaerus" = Terrakea brachythaera Morris 1845
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
Spirifera vespertilio Sowerby 1844
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Martiniopsis oviformis" = Tomiopsis oviformis
"Martiniopsis oviformis" = Tomiopsis oviformis M'Coy 1847
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Platyschisma oculum" = Keeneia ocula
"Platyschisma oculum" = Keeneia ocula Sowerby 1838 snail