Where: Tasmania, Australia (43.2° S, 147.2° E: paleocoordinates 78.4° S, 142.5° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Abels Bay Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Fossils occur throughout a few meters of section, but are concentrated in 38 cm thick bed. The Abels Bay Fm is the youngest marine Permian unit in Tasmanian, of late Lymingtonian age. Briggs (1998) correlated the late Lymingtonian with his mainland brachiopod zones, ranging from the Echinalosia wassi zone to the Echinalosia deari zone and with palynological zones APP4.3 and APP5. Radiometric calibration of these palynological zones by Laurie et al. (2016) suggests that APP4.3 is mid-Wuchiapingian and APP5 spans the late Wuchiapingian and Changhsingian. A Wuchiapingian age is assigned to the Abels Bay Formation here.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: All fossils figured herein are deposited in the fossil collections of the Geological Survey of Tasmania (GST) or the Geology Department, University of Tasmania (UTGF).

Primary reference: M. J. Clarke. 1987. Late Permian (late Lymingtonian = ?Kazanian) brachiopods from Tasmania. Alcheringa 11:261-289 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51314: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 02.06.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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