UQ L2580, Fossil Ridge, Cracow (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (25.3° S, 150.3° E: paleocoordinates 61.1° S, 151.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oxtrack Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Assigned to the Echinalosia robusta/hanloni brachiopod zone and lower APP4.2 palynomorph zone by Briggs (1998). Laurie et al., (2016) inferred an age of 266.8 Ma for the base of APP4.2 on the basis of radiometric constraints, which places it coincident with the base of the Wordian (266.9 Ma in West Texas; Wu et al., 2020).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UQ

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: R. E. Wass. 1968. Permian Polyzoa from the Bowen Basin. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 90:1-135 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113859: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia maxwelli2 Waterhouse 1964
1 VV, 6 Art
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Tomiopsis confusus2 Waterhouse 1968
1 Art
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Aperispirifer ovalis2 Waterhouse 1987
3 VV, 2 Art
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Maychellinidae
"Saffordotaxis multinodata n. sp." = Crockfordia multinodata
"Saffordotaxis multinodata n. sp." = Crockfordia multinodata Wass 1968
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Stenopora ovata1 Lonsdale 1844
Stenopora tasmaniensis Lonsdale 1844
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Fenestella granulifera" = Rectifenestella granulifera, "Levifenestella expansa" = Rectifenestella expansa, Fenestella spinigera
"Fenestella granulifera" = Rectifenestella granulifera Crockford 1941
"Levifenestella expansa" = Rectifenestella expansa Crockford 1946
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Penniretepora triporosa Crockford 1944
Ptylopora sp. McCoy 1844
Ptylopora sp. 2 in Morozova, 2004
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
"Polypora magnafenestrata" = Shulgapora magnafenestrata
"Polypora magnafenestrata" = Shulgapora magnafenestrata Crockford 1941