UQ L490, Fossil Ridge, Cracow Station (Permian of Australia)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Echinalosia curtosa brachiopod zone of Briggs (1998) - Early Artinskian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: J. Armstrong. 1970. Syringothyrid brachiopods from the Permian of eastern Australia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 136(2):135-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66207: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Pleurocinctosa promenata2, Collabrina parva2, Spiraculinella radiata2, Paraplatyschisma etheridgei2, Paraplatyschisma rotunda2
Pleurocinctosa promenata2 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Peruvispira promenata on list
Collabrina parva2 Wass 1967 snail
Spiraculinella radiata2 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Paraplatyschisma etheridgei2 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Paraplatyschisma rotunda2 Etheridge 1872 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Eurydesmatidae
Eurydesma cordatum2
Eurydesma cordatum2 Morris 1845 scallop
1 conjoined, ssp. truncatum
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Deltopecten limaeformis2, Squamuliferipecten sp.2
Deltopecten limaeformis2 Morris 1845 scallop
1 left valve
Squamuliferipecten sp.2 Waterhouse 1986 scallop
1 right valve
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta cracovensis2
Trigonotreta cracovensis2 Wass 1966
2 conjoined
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Tabellina denmeadi3, Tabellina cracowensis n. sp.3, "Tomiopsis elongata" = Ambikella elongata2
Tabellina denmeadi3 Campbell 1961
4 DV, 5 conjoined
Tabellina cracowensis n. sp.3 Waterhouse 1987
1 DV, 1 VV, 1 conjoined
"Tomiopsis elongata" = Ambikella elongata2 McClung and Armstrong 1975
1 VV
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Subansiria procera n. sp." = Permasyrinx procera
"Subansiria procera n. sp." = Permasyrinx procera Armstrong 1970
1 conjoined
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Lethamia rara1
Lethamia rara1 Briggs 1998
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea pollex2
Terrakea pollex2 Hill 1950
1 DV
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Lipanteris sp.2, Lipanteris sparsispinosus2, Lipanteris cracowensis2, Taeniothaerus lakismatos n. sp.4
Lipanteris sp.2 Briggs 1986
8 conjoined
Lipanteris sparsispinosus2 Briggs 1986
2 VV, 3 conjoined
Lipanteris cracowensis2 Hill 1950
1 dorsal valve
Taeniothaerus lakismatos n. sp.4 Briggs 1986
1Briggs 1998; 2Waterhouse 1987; 3Waterhouse 1987; 4Waterhouse and Briggs 1986