UQ L4661, Orange Creek, Gyranda Homestead (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (25.2° S, 150.2° E: paleocoordinates 60.3° S, 144.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barfield Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• The Barfield Formation ranges from the Echinalosia wassi-E. deari brachiopod zones of Briggs (1998), correlated with the top of APP4.2, APP4.3, and the lower part of APP5 palynomorph zones. Radiometric calibration of these palynological zones by Laurie et al. (2016) suggests that APP4.3 is mid-Wuchiapingian and APP5 spans the late Wuchiapingian and Changhsingian. A Wuchiapingian age is assigned to the Barfield Formation here.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse and D.J.C. Briggs. 1986. Late Palaeozoic Scyphozoa and Brachiopoda (Inarticulata, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 193(1-4):1-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104772: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Paraconularia derwentensis Johnston 1887 jellyfish
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Terrakea multispinosa" = Saetosina multispinosa1
"Terrakea multispinosa" = Saetosina multispinosa1 Dear 1971
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Aperispirifer lethamensis2 Waterhouse 1968