Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.1° S, 150.0° E: paleocoordinates 68.2° S, 146.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Glen Davis Formation (Charbon Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Glen Davis Formation of the Charbon Subgroup, the lower deltaic facies of the Illawarra Coal Measures, west of the Sydney Basin. The Illawarra Coal Measures are Late Permian. The Glen Davis Formation, which is placed mid-way through the Illawarra Coal Measures, contains the palynomorph Microreticulatisporites bitriangularis, the index form for the base of the APP5.2 Interval Zone, making it middle Dzhulfian (= Wuchiapingian)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
• MMF: Geological Survey of New South Wales
•AM: Australian Museum, Sydney
Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1909. On a new labyrinthodont from oil shale at Airly. Records—Geological Survey, New South Wales 8(4):317-319 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136494: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 28.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Bothriceps major n. sp." = Trucheosaurus major
"Bothriceps major n. sp." = Trucheosaurus major Woodward 1909 tetrapod MMF 12697a, skull table, AMF 50977, articulated postcranial skeleton, BMNH R3728, counterpart slab. All specimens represent a single individual
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