Where: Queensland, Australia (25.8° S, 147.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 70.8° S, 130.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Echinalosia ovalis brachiopod zone, Back Creek Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Presence of Echinalosia ovalis suggests an age within the E. ovalis zone, correlated with the middle part of APP5 palynomorph zone (Briggs, 1998). The APP5 zone was constrained as mid-Wuchiapingian through Changhsingian age by U-Pb dating in Laurie et al. (2016). However, overlying units in the Fort Cooper Coal Measures yield latest Wuchiapingian U-Pb ages (Phillips et al., 2018), constraining the upper Blenheim Fm to Wuchiapingian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: D. J. C. Briggs. 1998. Permian Productidina and Strophalosiidina from the Sydney-Bowen Basin and New England Orogen: systematics and biostratigraphic significance. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 19:1-258 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 103215: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.01.2011

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