UQ L4575, 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 66224: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Spiraculinella radiata n. gen. n. sp.2, "Pleurocinctosa fletcheri" = Peruvispira fletcheri2
Spiraculinella radiata n. gen. n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987 snail
"Pleurocinctosa fletcheri" = Peruvispira fletcheri2 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Deltopecten illawarrensis2 Morris 1845 scallop
1 Fragment
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Spiriferellina anguliplica2 Waterhouse 1987
2 VV
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta cracovensis2 Wass 1966
1 VV
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis postglabra" = Tomiopsis (Ambikella) postglabra2
"Tomiopsis postglabra" = Tomiopsis (Ambikella) postglabra2 Waterhouse 1987
2 VV
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia dejecta Waterhouse 1986
12 VV, 8 DV, 12 conjoined
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
Anemonaria mitis1 Hill 1950
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea pollex2 Hill 1950
8 VV, 3 conjoined
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Magniplicatina undulata Waterhouse 1986