Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.5° S, 151.4° E: paleocoordinates 64.4° S, 137.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Terrigal Formation (Narrabeen Group), Spathian to Spathian (251.3 - 242.0 Ma)
• Terrigal Formation (formerly Gosford Formation), uppermost unit of the Narrabeen Group. The Narrabeen Group extends from Late Permian–early Anisian, suggesting a late Spathian to early Anisian age for this locality (Warren & Marsicano 1998).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; pebbly conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by A. Ritchie
• AM: Australian Museum, Sydney
Primary reference: R. J. Damiani. 1999. Giant temnospondyl amphibians from the Early to Middle Triassic Narrabeen Group of the Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia. Alcheringa 23:87-109 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136488: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 28.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"cf. Capitosauridae indet." = Mastodonsauridae
"cf. Capitosauridae indet." = Mastodonsauridae Lydekker 1885 tetrapod AM F57957, natural impression of anterior portion of right mandible
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