UQ L4566, 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: 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 66215: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Volsellina cancellatus" = Promytilus cancellatus1
"Volsellina cancellatus" = Promytilus cancellatus1 Maxwell 1964 mussel
1 LV, 1 RV
 Pectinida - Eurydesmatidae
Eurydesma cordatum1 Morris 1845 scallop
3 LV, 3 RV, 2 conjoined; ssp. truncatum
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblopteria biornata1 Waterhouse 1987 scallop
3 LV, 1 RV
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Squamuliferipecten sp.1 Waterhouse 1986 scallop
1 LV, 1 RV
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten "sp. A"1 Waterhouse 1963 scallop
7 LV
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Bransonia sp.1 Pojeta and Runnegar 1976
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Pleurocinctosa promenata1 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Spiraculinella radiata1 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Paraplatyschisma rotunda1 Etheridge 1872 snail
Collabrina parva1 Wass 1967 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida -
Terebratulida indet.1 Waagen 1883
1 conjoined
 Terebratulida - Pseudodielasmatidae
Marinurnula prima n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
1 conjoined
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta cracovensis2 Wass 1966
13 VV, 1 DV, 2 conjoined
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Tabellina cracowensis1 Waterhouse 1987
3 VV, 1 DV, 1 conjoined
Tabellina denmeadi2 Campbell 1961
28 VV, 8 DV, 13 conjoined
Tomiopsis regina1 Waterhouse 1987
9 VV; Tomiopsis elongata in Waterhouse 1987 table
Notospirifer paraextensus1 Waterhouse 1987
1 VV, 1 DV
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Permasyrinx procera1 Armstrong 1970
1 VV, 1 DV
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
? Spiriferellina disparata1 Waterhouse 1987
5 VV
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia curtosa Waterhouse 1986
3 VV
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Lipanteris sparsispinosus n. sp. Briggs 1986
5 VV, 2 DV, 9 conjoined
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Protoanidanthus compactus Waterhouse 1986
1 conjoined
Terrakea pollex1 Hill 1950
28 VV, 3 DV, 5 conjoined
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
"Svalbardia cracowensis" = Brachiosvalbardia cracowensis1
"Svalbardia cracowensis" = Brachiosvalbardia cracowensis1 Etheridge 1872
5 VV, 1 DV, 1 conjoined
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
? Schuchertella sp.1 Girty 1904
2 DV