UQ L3102, East of Eidsvold-Banana Road (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (24.7° S, 150.1° E: paleocoordinates 59.8° S, 144.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Flat Top Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Assigned the Echinalosia ovalis zone of Briggs (1998) and the middle part of palynomorph zone APP5. Laurie et al. (2016) calibrated the APP5 zone to mid-Wuchiapingian through Changhsingian. Phillips et al. (2018) marked the Platypus Tuff bed (dated as 256.01 Ma in Metcalf et al., 2015) within the Flat Top Formation but suggested that the top of the formation was 255.13 Ma based on correlation with a tuff bed at the top of the Colinlea Sandstone equivalent. These constraints suggest a Wuchiapingian age for the Flat Top Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

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 104952: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Elimata prima2 Wass and Gould 1968 file clam
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten dawsonensis2 Runnegar and Ferguson 1969 scallop
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Guizhoupecten filae n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea quadrata n. sp.1 Briggs 1998