Abstract
A marine fauna low in the Takitimu Group is discussed and considered to be probably Sakmarian (Lower Permian) from its affinities to the faunas from the lower Dalwood Group of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, and correlative beds of Queensland. A pleurotomarid near the base of the group is close to or identical with a Queensland species from beds correlated with the Lochinvar or Allandale Formation of the Hunter Valley. Probably the Takitimu Group is Sakmarian and lower Artinskian