Where: South Australia, Australia (34.6° S, 139.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° S, 136.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mannum Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Lower member is Aquitanian, and upper member is Burdigalian. Exact strata for this collection is uncertain, but the Mannum Formation near and south of Swan Reach includes both the lower and upper member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University of Canterbury

Primary reference: N. Hiller and D. A. MacKinnon. 2000. A reappraisal of the systematics of the Stethothyris group of brachiopods from the Cenozoic of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 43:59-81 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206899: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2019

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