UQ L4533, Dawson Highway, Banana (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (24.5° S, 150.2° E: paleocoordinates 59.5° S, 144.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 120350: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Platyteichum coniforme2 Jack and Etheridge 1892 snail
Walnichollsia subcancellata2 Morris 1845 snail
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Bransonia robustum2 Fletcher 1943
[entered as Bransonia robusta]
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon theodorensis2 Waterhouse 1987 clam
1 LV, 1 RV
 Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae
Atomodesmatinae indet.2 Waterhouse 1976 clam
fragments of ?Maitaia or Aphanaia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten dawsonensis2 Runnegar and Ferguson 1969 scallop
2 LV, 1 RV
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
? Arctitreta "sp. B"2 Whitfield 1908
1 DV
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Capillonia semicircularis2 Campbell 1953
1 VV
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Saetosina multispinosa Dear 1971
9 VV, 4 DV, 2 Art
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Filiconcha hillae Dear 1969
1 VV, 1 DV, 2 Art
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
"Echinalosia deari" = Acanthalosia deari1
"Echinalosia deari" = Acanthalosia deari1 Briggs 1998
2 VV, 1 DV, 1 Art
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Plekonella acuta Campbell 1953
2 VV
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus3, Tomiopsis dissimilis3, "Tomiopsis mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis2
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus3 Waterhouse 1968
5 VV, 3 DV
Tomiopsis dissimilis3 Waterhouse 1964
150 VV, 84 DV, 46 Art
"Tomiopsis mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis2 Campbell 1960
9 VV, 2 DV