UQ L4550, 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 66249: 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.1 Chronic 1949 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten tenuicollis1 Dana 1847 scallop
3 LV, 1 RV
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Anidanthus paucicostatus" = Anidanthus springsurensis1, Paucispinauria geniculata1
"Anidanthus paucicostatus" = Anidanthus springsurensis1 Booker 1932
4 VV, 2 DV, 1 Art
Paucispinauria geniculata1 Waterhouse 1986
1 Art
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Magniplicatina undulata Waterhouse 1986
2 VV, 1 Art
Costatumulus tumidus1 Waterhouse 1983
1 VV, 1 Art
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia preovalis1 Maxwell 1954
22 VV, 17 DV, 49 Art
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Pustulospiriferina lirata n. sp.2 Waterhouse 1987
3 VV, 1 DV
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata1, Cyrtella subparallela2
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata1 Armstrong 1970
11 VV, 2 Art
Cyrtella subparallela2 Waterhouse 1987
1 VV, 2 DV, 1 Art
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata1
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata1 Campbell 1961
7 VV, 1 Art
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta australis2 Bion 1928
5 VV, 1 DV