Lakes Creek Quarry, 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 from other collections at the Lakes Creek quarry 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: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Crockford. 1946. A bryozoan fauna from the Lake's Creek Quarry, Rockhampton, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70:125-134 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106888: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Polypora virga, "Polypora minuta" = Polypora keppelensis, "Polypora woodsi" = Polyporella woodsi
Polypora virga Laseron 1918
"Polypora minuta" = Polypora keppelensis Crockford 1962
"Polypora woodsi" = Polyporella woodsi Etheridge 1892
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Fenestrellina rockhamptonensis n. sp." = Fenestella rockhamptonensis, "Fenestrellina simulatrix n. sp." = Fenestella simulatrix, "Fenestrellina granulifera" = Rectifenestella granulifera, "Fenestrellina expansa n. sp." = Rectifenestella expansa, "Fenestrellina aspratilis" = Spinofenestella aspratilis, Minilya duplaris
"Fenestrellina rockhamptonensis n. sp." = Fenestella rockhamptonensis Crockford 1946
"Fenestrellina simulatrix n. sp." = Fenestella simulatrix Crockford 1946
"Fenestrellina granulifera" = Rectifenestella granulifera Crockford 1941
"Fenestrellina expansa n. sp." = Rectifenestella expansa Crockford 1946
"Fenestrellina aspratilis" = Spinofenestella aspratilis Bassler 1929
Minilya duplaris Crockford 1944