UQ L4591, 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. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Brachiopoda (Athyrida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 196(1-3):1-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120536: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Platyteichum coniforme Jack and Etheridge 1892 snail
Platyteichum loratum Waterhouse 1963 snail
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Bransonia projecta Waterhouse 1987
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon theodorensis Waterhouse 1987 clam
1 LV, 3 Art
 Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae
Atomodesma variabile Wanner 1922 clam
1 Art
 Pectinida - Dolponellidae
Praeamonotis anticipata Waterhouse 1987 scallop
2 LV
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten dawsonensis Runnegar and Ferguson 1969 scallop
2 LV
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Volsellina heywoodi Waterhouse 1987 mussel
1 Art
 Pholadomyida - Chaenomyidae
Oblicarina carinata Etheridge 1892 clam
1 Art
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Myonia (Myomedia) carinata Morris 1845 clam
1 LV, 1 Art
Vacunella dawsonensis Runnegar 1967 clam
1 Art
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
? Arctitreta "sp. B" Whitfield 1908
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Capillonia semicircularis Campbell 1953
8 VV, 4 Art
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Saetosina multispinosa Dear 1971
1 VV, 11 Art
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Cyrtella nobilis Armstrong 1970
1 DV, 3 Art
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus, Tomiopsis dissimilis
"Notospirifer macropustulosus" = Mesopunctia macropustulosus Waterhouse 1968
1 Art
Tomiopsis dissimilis Waterhouse 1964
1 Art
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Aperispirifer lethamensis Waterhouse 1968
2 Art