ammonites
WPH, Wasp Head (Permian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.7° S, 150.3° E: paleocoordinates 67.0° S, 170.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wasp Head Formation (Shoalhaven Group), Sakmarian (295.0 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, bioturbated sandstone and conglomerate

• Thick breccias at the base, fine to coarse-grained sandstone to conglomerate above, with bioturbated and hummocky cross-stratification sandstone dominating

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: C. M. Reid. 2003. Permian Bryozoa of Tasmania and New South Wales: systematics and their use in Tasmanian biostratigraphy. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir 28:1-133 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64359: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 06.09.2006