UQ L4540, 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: Elvinia Member (Buffel Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Upper Echinalosia preovalis zone of Briggs, 1998 - Late Artinskian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Brachiopoda (Athyrida, Spiriferida and Terebratulida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 196(1-3):1-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66240: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Peruvispira sp. Chronic 1949 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Deltopecten illawarrensis Morris 1845 scallop
Fragments
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Anidanthus paucicostatus" = Anidanthus springsurensis Booker 1932
1 VV
Paucispinauria geniculata Waterhouse 1986
3 VV, 1 DV
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Costatumulus tumidus Waterhouse 1983
3 VV, 1 conjoined
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia preovalis Maxwell 1954
16 VV, 1 DV, 10 conjoined
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Pustulospiriferina lirata Waterhouse 1987
8 VV, 1 DV
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata, Cyrtella subparallela
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata Armstrong 1970
8 VV
Cyrtella subparallela Waterhouse 1987
1 VV, 2 DV
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata Campbell 1961
4 VV
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Fusispirifer sp. Waterhouse 1966
1 DV
Trigonotreta australis Bion 1928
4 VV, 1 DV
Sulciplica stutchburii Etheridge 1892
2 VV