Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.7° S, 151.3° E: paleocoordinates 67.6° S, 161.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fenestella Shale Member (Branxton Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)
• Brachiopods in the formation suggest the Echinalosia davidi brachiopod zone, equivalent to the middle part of APP3.3 palynomorph zone. Laurie et al. (2016) dated zircons from the Rowan Formation in the Sydney Basin (in the underlying upper Echinalosia preovalis zone, or upper APP3.2) as 271.60 and 271.89 Ma, constraining its upper part to Roadian, given a Roadian-Wordian boundary around 266.9 Ma (Wu et al., 2020). Strata in Western Australia assigned to APP4.1 yielded U-Pb ages of 269.25 Ma or younger, constraining the upper boundary of APP3.3 to the late Roadian (Laurie et al. 2016). As a result, APP3.3 appears to fall entirely within the Roadian. As a result, the E. davidi zone is most likely Roadian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. M. Crockford. 1941. Permian Bryozoa of eastern Australia, part II: new species from the Upper Marine Series of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 74:502-519 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90393: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.07.2009
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Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
"Polypora magnafenestrata" = Shulgapora magnafenestrata
"Polypora magnafenestrata" = Shulgapora magnafenestrata Crockford 1941 | |
"Fenestrellina exserta" = Laxifenestella exserta1, "Fenestrellina canthariformis n. sp." = Fenestella canthariformis, "Fenestrellina dispersa" = Fenestella dispersa2, "Fenestrellina granulifera" = Rectifenestella granulifera, "Fenestrellina altacarinata n. sp." = Levifenestella altacarinata
"Fenestrellina exserta" = Laxifenestella exserta1 Laseron 1918
"Fenestrellina canthariformis n. sp." = Fenestella canthariformis Crockford 1941
"Fenestrellina dispersa" = Fenestella dispersa2 Crockford 1943
"Fenestrellina granulifera" = Rectifenestella granulifera Crockford 1941
"Fenestrellina altacarinata n. sp." = Levifenestella altacarinata Crockford 1941 | |
Polypora multinodata n. sp., Polypora virga1, Polypora montuosa1, "Polypora woodsi" = Polyporella woodsi1
Polypora multinodata n. sp. Crockford 1941
Polypora virga1 Laseron 1918
Polypora montuosa1 Laseron 1918
"Polypora woodsi" = Polyporella woodsi1 Etheridge 1892 |