UQ L4546, 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

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1987. Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 198(4-6):129-233 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66245: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Bransonia sp. Pojeta and Runnegar 1976
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten tenuicollis Dana 1847 scallop
1 RV
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata Campbell 1961
2 VV
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata, Cyrtella subparallela
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata Armstrong 1970
1 VV, 1 Art
Cyrtella subparallela Waterhouse 1987
1 VV
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Pustulospiriferina lirata Waterhouse 1987
1 DV
Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Costatumulus tumidus Waterhouse 1983
5 VV
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Anidanthus paucicostatus" = Anidanthus springsurensis
"Anidanthus paucicostatus" = Anidanthus springsurensis Booker 1932
5 VV, 1 DV, 1 Art
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
? Arctitreta sp. Whitfield 1908
13 VV, 3 DV, 2 Art