UQ L4558, 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 sandstone

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 66256: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Costatumulus tumidus Waterhouse 1983
1 VV, 1 Art
 Productida - Linoproductidae
"Anidanthus paucicostatus" = Anidanthus springsurensis Booker 1932
8 VV, 3 DV, 1 Art
Paucispinauria geniculata Waterhouse 1986
1 DV
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Echinalosia preovalis Maxwell 1954
13 VV, 11 DV, 2 Art
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Coledium elvinia Waterhouse 1986
1 VV
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata
"Permasyrinx elongata" = Syrella elongata Armstrong 1970
1 VV
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Pustulospiriferina lirata Waterhouse 1987
3 VV
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Trigonotreta australis Bion 1928
4 VV
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata
"Tomiopsis ovata" = Ambikella ovata Campbell 1961
1 VV, 1 DV
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Cyrtorostra limitans Waterhouse 1987 scallop
1 RV
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten tenuicollis Dana 1847 scallop
1 LV
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Striochondria sp. Waterhouse 1983 scallop
1 LV, 1 RV
Streblopteria homevalensis Waterhouse 1986 scallop
1 LV, 1 RV
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Peruvispira sp. Chronic 1949 snail
Spiraculinella ? radiata Waterhouse 1987 snail