UQ L1849, 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. B. Waterhouse and D.J.C. Briggs. 1986. Late Palaeozoic Scyphozoa and Brachiopoda (Inarticulata, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 193(1-4):1-76 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66209: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Spiraculinella radiata1 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Pleurocinctosa promenata1 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Collabrina parva1 Wass 1967 snail
Paraplatyschisma etheridgei1 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Paraplatyschisma rotunda1 Etheridge 1872 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Eurydesmatidae
Eurydesma cordatum1 Morris 1845 scallop
4 left valve; ssp. truncatum
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Deltopecten limaeformis1 Morris 1845 scallop
1 LV, 1 conjoined
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten "sp. A"1 Waterhouse 1963 scallop
7 LV, 1 RV, 1 conjoined
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblopteria biornata n. sp.1 Waterhouse 1987 scallop
5 LV
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia curtosa1 Waterhouse 1986
2 VV
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Lipanteris cracowensis1 Hill 1950
6 conjoined
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Paucispinauria geniculata Waterhouse 1986
Terrakea pollex Hill 1950
106 VV, 54 DV, 8 Conjoined
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Svalbardia cracowensis" = Brachiosvalbardia cracowensis
"Svalbardia cracowensis" = Brachiosvalbardia cracowensis Etheridge 1872
31 VV, 60 DV, 13 Conjoined
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
? Notostrophia sp. Waterhouse 1973
2 VV
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
? Spiriferellina disparata2 Waterhouse 1987
2 VV, 3 conjoined
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Notospirifer paraextensus n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
1 VV, 1 conjoined
Tabellina denmeadi1 Campbell 1961
10 VV, 2 DV, 7 conjoined
Tabellina cracowensis1 Waterhouse 1987
3 VV, 3 DV, 3 conjoined
Tomiopsis regina n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
7 VV, 3DV, 3 conjoined; T. elongata in Waterhouse 1987 table
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta cracovensis2 Wass 1966
5 VV, 1 DV, 3 Conjoined
 Terebratulida -
Terebratulida indet.1 Waagen 1883
2 conjoined