Cracow Creek (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: Fairyland Member (Buffel Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Daintree

• Repository: Queensland Museum

Primary reference: R. Etheridge. 1872. Description of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic fossils of Queensland. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 28:317-360 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131809: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Chonetes cracowensis n. sp." = Brachiosvalbardia cracowensis
"Chonetes cracowensis n. sp." = Brachiosvalbardia cracowensis Etheridge 1872
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurotomaria rotunda n. sp." = Paraplatyschisma rotunda
"Pleurotomaria rotunda n. sp." = Paraplatyschisma rotunda Etheridge 1872 snail