UQ L4598, quarry along highway north of Theodore, Bowen Basin (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (24.9° S, 150.1° E: paleocoordinates 59.9° S, 144.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Echinalosia ovalis brachiopod zone, 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the UQ

• University of Queensland (UQF)

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 120340: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
"Echinalosia deari" = Acanthalosia deari1
"Echinalosia deari" = Acanthalosia deari1 Briggs 1998
2 DV, 1 Art
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Saetosina multispinosa Dear 1971
2 VV, 14 DV, 112 Art
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus3, "Tomiopsis mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis3
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus3 Waterhouse 1968
1 VV, 1 DV, 1 Art
"Tomiopsis mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis3 Campbell 1960
1 VV, 3 DV
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Aperispirifer lethamensis3 Waterhouse 1968
9 VV, 5 DV, 8 Art
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Cyrtella nobilis3 Armstrong 1970
2 VV, 1 Art
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis imperta2 Waterhouse 1964 nut clam
1 LV, 1 RV
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Merismopteria macroptera2 Morris 1845 oyster
1 Art
 Pectinida - Limidae
Calcicanicularia antecostata2 Waterhouse 1987 file clam
7 LV, 7 RV
Elimata prima2 Wass and Gould 1968 file clam
4 LV, 5 RV
 Pectinida - Dolponellidae
Praeamonotis anticipata2 Waterhouse 1987 scallop
1 LV
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Guizhoupecten filae2 Waterhouse 1987 scallop
2 RV, 1 Art
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten dawsonensis2 Runnegar and Ferguson 1969 scallop
2 LV
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Cyrtorostra laticostata2 Nechaev 1894 scallop
1 LV; C. pomposa in table
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon theodorensis2 Waterhouse 1987 clam
4 LV, 7 RV, 2 Art
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Myonia (Myomedia) carinata2 Morris 1845 clam
4 LV, 3 RV, 11 Art
Vacunella curvata2 Morris 1845 clam
1 RV, 1 Art
Vacunella dawsonensis2 Runnegar 1967 clam
3 LV, 5 RV, 19 Art
Pachymyonia triangulata2 Waterhouse 1969 clam
1 Art
 Cardiidia -
"Pholadomyoida indet." = Pholadomyida2
"Pholadomyoida indet." = Pholadomyida2 Newell 1965 clam
Myonia or Vacunella fragments
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Stutchburia compressa2 Morris 1845 clam
1 LV, 1 RV, 2 Art
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Kaibabella (Flattopia) axinia2 Waterhouse 1987 clam
4 LV, 1 RV, 1 Art
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Bransonia projecta n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Spironemella turgida2 Waterhouse 1987 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Platyteichum coniforme2 Jack and Etheridge 1892 snail