UQ L4576, 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

• outcrop-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

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 66223: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Tomiopsis postglabra n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
12 VV
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
? Cleiothyridina sp.1 Buckman 1906
1 VV, 3 conjoined
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Permasyrinx subelongata n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
1 VV, 1 DV, 3 conjoined
Strophomenata
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
"Azygidium mitis" = Anemonaria mitis1
"Azygidium mitis" = Anemonaria mitis1 Hill 1950
10 VV, 44 conjoined
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Nothokuvelousia aurifera" = Megousia solita
"Nothokuvelousia aurifera" = Megousia solita Waterhouse 1968
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia dejecta Waterhouse 1986
2 VV, 2 conjoined
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Notostrophia bifurcata1 Waterhouse 1986
3 VV, 2 DV