UQ L4523, Buffel Hill, Cracow Homestead (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (25.4° S, 150.3° E: paleocoordinates 58.6° S, 159.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Elvinia Member (Buffel Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Upper Echinalosia preovalis zone of Briggs, 1998 - Late Artinskian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siltstone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 198(4-6):129-233 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120636: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Peruvispira sp. Chronic 1949 snail
Paraplatyschisma etheridgei Waterhouse 1987 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten tenuicollis Dana 1847 scallop
2 LV
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Deltopecten limaeformis Morris 1845 scallop
1 LV
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Stutchburia farleyensis Etheridge 1900 clam
1 Art
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Anidanthus paucicostatus" = Anidanthus springsurensis Booker 1932
8 VV, 4 DV, 1 Art
Paucispinauria geniculata Waterhouse 1986
1 VV, 4 DV, 2 Art
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Magniplicatina undulata Waterhouse 1986
1 VV
Costatumulus tumidus Waterhouse 1983
4 VV, 4 DV
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Pustulospiriferina lirata Waterhouse 1987
3 VV, 1 DV
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata, Cyrtella subparallela
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata Armstrong 1970
1 VV, 1 DV
Cyrtella subparallela Waterhouse 1987
1 VV
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea rotularia Waterhouse 1986
22 VV, 1 DV, 10 Art