UQ L4553, 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 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 66243: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea rotularia1 Waterhouse 1986
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia preovalis Maxwell 1954
57 VV, 43 DV, 24 Art; ssp. curvata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Anidanthus paucicostatus n. sp." = Anidanthus springsurensis, Paucispinauria geniculata1
"Anidanthus paucicostatus n. sp." = Anidanthus springsurensis Booker 1932
9 VV, 1 DV, 1 Art
Paucispinauria geniculata1 Waterhouse 1986
5 VV
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Costatumulus tumidus1 Waterhouse 1983
8 VV, 1 DV, 2 Art
Magniplicatina undulata1 Waterhouse 1986
1 VV
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
? Arctitreta sp.1 Whitfield 1908
1 VV
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta australis2 Bion 1928
11 VV, 2 DV, 1 Art
Sulciplica stutchburii1 Etheridge 1892
1 VV
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis cf. profunda" = Geothomasia profunda2, "Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata1
"Tomiopsis cf. profunda" = Geothomasia profunda2 Campbell 1961
1 VV
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata1 Campbell 1961
10 VV, 1 DV
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Cyrtella subparallela2, "Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata1
Cyrtella subparallela2 Waterhouse 1987
1 VV, 1 DV, 1 Art
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata1 Armstrong 1970
3 VV, 1 DV, 1 Art
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Pustulospiriferina lirata1 Waterhouse 1987
3 VV, 1 DV, 1 Art
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Coledium elvinia1 Waterhouse 1986
1 VV
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Peruvispira sp.1 Chronic 1949 snail
Paraplatyschisma etheridgei1 Waterhouse 1987 snail
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Bransonia sp.1 Pojeta and Runnegar 1976
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten tenuicollis1 Dana 1847 scallop
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblopteria homevalensis1 Waterhouse 1986 scallop
1 LV
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Stutchburia farleyensis1 Etheridge 1900 clam