UQ L4542, 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 and 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 66242: 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
Paraplatyschisma etheridgei Waterhouse 1987 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten tenuicollis Dana 1847 scallop
2 LV
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Deltopecten limaeformis Morris 1845 scallop
1 LV?
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Stutchburia farleyensis Etheridge 1900 clam
1 LV
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia preovalis Maxwell 1954
49 VV, 10 DV, 18 conjoined
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Anidanthus paucicostatus" = Anidanthus springsurensis Booker 1932
3 DV, 1 VV, 1 conjoined
Paucispinauria geniculata Waterhouse 1986
3 VV, 2 DV, 1 Conjoined
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Costatumulus tumidus Waterhouse 1983
19 VV, 4 DV, 2 conjoined
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Pustulospiriferina lirata Waterhouse 1987
7 VV
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata, Cyrtella subparallela
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata Armstrong 1970
4 VV, 2 DV
Cyrtella subparallela Waterhouse 1987
1 DV?
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Coledium elvinia Waterhouse 1986
1 VV, 1 DV
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
? Composita sp. Brown 1849
1 VV
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta australis Bion 1928
6 VV
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata Campbell 1961
7 VV, 3 DV
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea rotularia n. sp. Waterhouse 1986