UQ L4643, Bowen River, Exmoor Homestead (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.9° S, 148.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 66.2° S, 136.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudostrophalosia blakei brachiopod zone, Moonlight Sandstone Member (Blenheim Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.5 - 254.1 Ma)

• Waterhouse & Jell (1983) are unclear whether this and other localities belong to the Moonlight Sandstone. Presence of Pseudostrophalosia blakei suggests an age within the P. blakei zone, correlated with the lower part of APP4.3 palynomorph zone (Briggs, 1998). The APP4.3 zone was constrained as mid-Wuchiapingian age by U-Pb dating in Laurie et al. (2016).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse and J. S. Jell. 1983. The sequence of Permian rocks and faunas near Exmoor Homestead south of Collinsville, north Bowen Basin. Permian Geology of Queensland 231-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104762: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
Astartila sp. Dana 1847 clam
1 conjoined
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Stutchburia compressa Morris 1845 clam
1 left
 Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae
Atomodesmatinae indet. Waterhouse 1976 clam
2 left, 1 right
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten escalatus Waterhouse 1982 scallop
3 left
Etheripecten plicatus Waterhouse 1983 scallop
2 left
Etheripecten leniusculus Dana 1847 scallop
9 left, 6 right
 Pectinida - Limidae
Elimata sp. Dickins 1963 file clam
1 left, 2 right
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Pseudostrophalosia blakei Dear 1971
152 ventral, 202 dorsal, 8 conjoined
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea exmoorensis Dear 1971
36 ventral, 3 dorsal, 20 conjoined
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Glendonia exigua, "Notospirifer minutus" = Mesopunctia minuta, "Tomiopsis mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis, "Tomiopsis magna" = Tomiopsis (Johndearia) magna
Glendonia exigua McClung and Armstrong 1978
14 ventral, 4 dorsal, 3 conjoined
"Notospirifer minutus" = Mesopunctia minuta Campbell 1960
6 ventral
"Tomiopsis mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis Campbell 1960
1 ventral
"Tomiopsis magna" = Tomiopsis (Johndearia) magna Campbell 1960
8 ventral, 1 conjoined
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Sulciplica transversa Waterhouse 1968
5 ventral, 1 dorsal
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae
"Gilledia ulladullensis" = Paragilledia ulladullensis
"Gilledia ulladullensis" = Paragilledia ulladullensis Campbell 1965
6 ventral, 2 dorsal, 2 conjoined
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Fletcherithyris sp. Campbell 1965
2 ventral, 3 dorsal, 3 conjoined