Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.3° S, 146.4° E: paleocoordinates 71.2° S, 173.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spreyton Formation, Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• 47 m above Tasmanites oil shale

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: M. J. Clarke. 1990. Late Palaeozoic (Tamarian; Late Carboniferous-Early Permian) cold-water brachiopods from Tasmania. Alcheringa 14:53-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105478: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.02.2011

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