Where: Tasmania, Australia (43.0° S, 147.3° E: paleocoordinates 78.2° S, 142.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Middle part of formation, 37-45 m below top of formation.

•The Ferntree 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 palynologyical 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 Ferntree Formation here.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. J. Clarke. 1973. Faunas from the Ferntree Group of south-eastern Tasmania. Technical Reports - Tasmania Department of Mines 16:50-65 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83176: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.08.2008

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