Where: Queensland, Australia (22.1° S, 148.2° E: paleocoordinates 57.3° S, 140.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudostrophalosia clarkei brachiopod zone, Back Creek Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Presence of Pseudostrophalosia clarkei suggests an age within the P. clarkei zone, correlated with the lower part of APP4.3 palynomorph zone (Briggs, 1998). The APP4.3 zone was constrained as mid-Wuchiapingian age by U-Pb dating in Laurie et al. (2016).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Runnegar. 1965. The bivalves Megadesmus Sowerby and Astartila Dana from the Permian of eastern Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 12(2):227-252 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83216: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.08.2008

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