UQ L4819, 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 66219: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Spiraculinella radiata Waterhouse 1987 snail
Collabrina parva Wass 1967 snail
Pleurocinctosa promenata Waterhouse 1987 snail
Paraplatyschisma rotunda Etheridge 1872 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Eurydesmatidae
Eurydesma cordatum Morris 1845 scallop
1 LV; ssp. truncatum
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten "sp. A" Waterhouse 1963 scallop
1 LV
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Squamuliferipecten sp. Waterhouse 1986 scallop
1 RV
Deltopecten illawarrensis Morris 1845 scallop
2 LV
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
? Spiriferellina disparata Waterhouse 1987
1 conjoined
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Permasyrinx procera Armstrong 1970
1 VV
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta cracovensis Wass 1966
1 VV, 1 conjoined
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Tabellina denmeadi, "Tomiopsis elongata" = Ambikella elongata
Tabellina denmeadi Campbell 1961
1 DV
"Tomiopsis elongata" = Ambikella elongata McClung and Armstrong 1975
1 VV
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia curtosa n. sp. Waterhouse 1986
1 DV, 2 conjoined
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea pollex Hill 1950
20 VV, 7 conjoined