UQ L4585, 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, Lower Member (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 120379: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Capillonia semicircularis1 Campbell 1953
19 VV, 5 DV, 1 Art
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
"Magniplicatina halli" = Costatumulus halli, Filiconcha hillae
"Magniplicatina halli" = Costatumulus halli Waterhouse 1982
1 VV, 1 DV,1 Art
Filiconcha hillae Dear 1969
3 VV, 1 DV, 2 Art
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Saetosina multispinosa1 Dear 1971
4 VV, 6 DV, 4 Art
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus1, "Tomiopsis mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis2
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus1 Waterhouse 1968
1 DV
"Tomiopsis mantuanensis" = Ingelarella mantuanensis2 Campbell 1960
6 VV, 2 DV, 1 Art
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Aperispirifer lethamensis2 Waterhouse 1968
6 VV, 2 Art
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Cyrtella subparallela n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
Not listed in table
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae
Maorielasma imperatum2 Waterhouse 1964
1 DV, 1 Art; assumed to be M. callosum in table
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Calcicanicularia antecostata1 Waterhouse 1987 file clam
6 LV, 6 RV
 Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae
Atomodesma variabile1 Wanner 1922 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon theodorensis1 Waterhouse 1987 clam
5 LV, 3 RV, 2 Art
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Kaibabella (Flattopia) axinia1 Waterhouse 1987 clam
1 LV