UQ L4820, Buffel Hill, Cracow Station (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (25.4° S, 150.3° E: paleocoordinates 60.6° S, 156.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Echinalosia preovalis brachiopod zone, Dresden Member (Buffel Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Brachiopods suggest the lower Echinalosia preovalis zone, correlated with the upper APP3.1 palynomorph zone (Briggs, 1998). The APP3.1 zone does not have any radiometric constraints, although the top of the overlying APP3.2 is around 271.6 Ma (Laurie et al., 2016), placing it near the Kungurian-Roadian boundary or in the lower Roadian. Phillips et al. (2018) report ages of 282.72 and 282.41 Ma from strata no older than APP2.2, providing an upper constraint on APP3.1. Phillips et al. (2018) also place APP3.1 in the Kungurian, which is consistent with the presence of the ammonoid Neocrimites in APP3.1 of the Tiverton Formation (although not unequivocal).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

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 66221: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurocinctosa fletcheri" = Peruvispira fletcheri1
"Pleurocinctosa fletcheri" = Peruvispira fletcheri1 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
? Cleiothyridina "sp. B"2 Buckman 1906
4 VV, 1 DV, 1 conjoined
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Permasyrinx subelongata1 Waterhouse 1987
7 VV, 4 DV, 3 conjoined
Sulcicosta costata n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Spiriferellina anguliplica n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
3 VV, 4 DV, 4 conjoined
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
? Attenuatella sp.2 Stehli 1954
1 VV
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta cracovensis2 Wass 1966
8 VV, 4 DV, 2 conjoined
 Rhynchonellida -
Plekonina spissatella n. gen. n. sp.
Plekonina spissatella n. gen. n. sp. Waterhouse 1986
3 VV, 2 DV, 1 Conjoined
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia dejecta n. sp. Waterhouse 1986
6 VV, 9 DV, 7 Conjoined
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Azygidium mitis" = Anemonaria mitis
"Azygidium mitis" = Anemonaria mitis Hill 1950
197 VV, 2 DV, 435 Conjoined
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea pollex1 Hill 1950
2 VV?
Protoanidanthus compactus n. sp. Waterhouse 1986
3 VV, 1 DV, 2 conjoined
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
? Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
2 VV, 1 DV
Notostrophia bifurcata n. sp. Waterhouse 1986
18 VV, 24 DV, 3 Conjoined