L4568, 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

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; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 198(4-6):129-233 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66216: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia curtosa Waterhouse 1986
1 DV, 2 conjoined
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea pollex Hill 1950
1 conjoined
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
? Spiriferellina disparata Waterhouse 1987
1 VV, 1 DV
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta cracovensis Wass 1966
1 conjoined
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Pleurocinctosa promenata Waterhouse 1987 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Deltopecten illawarrensis Morris 1845 scallop
1 fragment