Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.6° S, 150.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 74.6° S, 163.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Berry Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Upper Marine Series - according to Sydney 1:250,000 geological map the Berry Formation is exposed at Hartley.

•Assigned to APP4.2 (Echinalosia runnegari-E. wassi brachiopod zones) by Briggs (1998). According to the radiometric calibrations of Laurie et al. (2016), APP4.2 spans the latest Wordian through early Wuchiapingian. The overlying Broughton Formation yielded an early Capitanian radiometric age of 263.51 Ma in its upper part (Metcalf et al., 2015), so a late Wordian age is assigned to the Berry Formation here.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Australian Museum, Sydney (presumably)

Primary reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1902. Palaentologia novae cambriae meridionalis - occasional descriptions of New South Wales fossils, no. 4. Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales 7:66-69 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131933: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.08.2012

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