QML 1008. Small unnamed creek 1.5 kilometers south of Sugarloaf Dam. (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Pyramid Station

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.9° S, 147.1° E: paleocoordinates 5.6° S, 165.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ukalunda Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Most of the material is from Ukalunda beds. Some also from the related siliciclastics of Douglas Creek Limestone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: siliciclastic sediments and lithified limestone

• Ukalunda beds implied to be siliciclastic. Collections from Douglas Creek Limestone explicitly stated to be in siliciclastic beds.

Collection methods: Four small collections combined.

Primary reference: A. G. Cook. 1995. Gastropods from the Ukalunda Beds and Douglas Creek, Early Devonian, north Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2):429-435 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56314: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only gastropods are listed.
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina -
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Tropidodiscus foliatus Cook 1995 snail