Nerimbera Quarry, Lakes Creek Siding, Rockhampton (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.4° S, 150.6° E: paleocoordinates 58.6° S, 155.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Berserker Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Brachiopods elsewhere in the Berserker Formation (Lakes Creek Beds of Armstrong) suggest the E. warwicki zone, correlated with the lower part of the APP3.1 palynomorph zone (Briggs, 1998). The APP3.1 zone does not have any radiometric constraints, although the top of the overlying APP3.2 is around 271.6 Ma (Laurie et al., 2016), placing it near the Kungurian-Roadian boundary or in the lower Roadian. Phillips et al. (2018) report ages of 282.72 and 282.41 Ma from strata no older than APP2.2, providing an upper constraint on APP3.1. Phillips et al. (2018) also place APP3.1 in the Kungurian, which is consistent with the presence of the ammonoid Neocrimites in APP3.1 of the Tiverton Formation (although not unequivocal). It is possible that units from the lower part of APP3.1 may be Artinskian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. G. McKellar. 1969. Permian pelmatozoan echinoderms from Nerimbera near Rockhampton, Queensland. Queensland Geological Survey Publication 337:19-28 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101561: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Subansiria cf. granulata" = Cyrtella granulata
"Subansiria cf. granulata" = Cyrtella granulata Armstrong 1970
Crinoidea
 Disparida - Catillocrinidae
"Catillocrinus nerimberae n. sp." = Notiocatillocrinus nerimberae
"Catillocrinus nerimberae n. sp." = Notiocatillocrinus nerimberae McKellar 1969 Sea lily
Blastoidea
 Fissiculata -
Fissiculata "indet. 1" Jaekel 1918 blastoid
Fissiculata "indet. 2" Jaekel 1918 blastoid
 Fissiculata - Codasteridae
Austroblastus whitehousei n. gen. n. sp. McKellar 1969 blastoid
 Fissiculata - Neoschismatidae
? Neoschisma cornutum n. sp. McKellar 1969 blastoid
 Spiraculata - Pentremitidae
? Rhopaloblastus cf. belfordi Crockford and Brown 1940 blastoid