Duckworth Creek, SW of Bluff, QML 215 (Triassic of Australia)

Also known as AAW field locality Q6, QM L215

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.6° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 56.8° S, 137.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Arcadia Formation (Rewan Group), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• Lower part of Arcadia Formation. Warren et al. (2006) argued that the Arcadia Formation is likely earliest Triassic in age based upon SHRIMP, U/Pb and microflora evidence that the conformably underlying Sagittarius Sandstone of the Rewan Group is largely Permian in age.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

• red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

• QM: Queensland Museum

Primary reference: A. A. Warren and M. N. Hutchinson. 1988. A new capitosaurid amphibian from the early Triassic of Queensland, and the ontogeny of the capitosaur skull. Palaeontology 31(3):857-876 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 94541: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.02.2010, edited by Richard Butler, Bethany Allen, Evangelos Vlachos and Bryan Gee

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lycopodiopsida
 Isoetales - Pleuromeiaceae
Duckworthia isoeteformis n. gen. n. sp.1 Cantrill and Webb 1998 clubmoss
QM F33262 (holotype)
Helicorhiza duckworthensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Cantrill and Webb 1998 clubmoss
QM F33261 (holotype), 33260
Pleurocaulis rewanense1 Cantrill and Webb 1998 clubmoss
QM F33276, 33278-83
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
"Parotosuchus aliciae n. sp." = Warrenisuchus aliciae
"Parotosuchus aliciae n. sp." = Warrenisuchus aliciae Warren and Hutchinson 1988 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
Tirraturhinus smisseni n. gen. n. sp.4
Tirraturhinus smisseni n. gen. n. sp.4 Nield et al. 2006 tetrapod
QM F44093
 Temnospondyli -
Capulomala arcadiaensis8 Warren et al. 2009 tetrapod
QM F39713, partial mandible
 Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae
"Brachyops allos n. sp." = Xenobrachyops allos3
"Brachyops allos n. sp." = Xenobrachyops allos3 Howie 1972 tetrapod
QM F6572 (holotype), skull
 Temnospondyli - Chigutisauridae
Keratobrachyops australis n. gen. n. sp.6
Keratobrachyops australis n. gen. n. sp.6 Warren 1981 tetrapod
QM F10115 (holotype), skull. QM F10116, 10117, 14487, 14488
 Temnospondyli - Derwentiidae
"Arcadia myriadens n. gen. n. sp." = Rewana myriadens7
"Arcadia myriadens n. gen. n. sp." = Rewana myriadens7 Warren and Black 1985 tetrapod
QM F10121, QM F12293
 Temnospondyli - Rhytidosteidae
Nanolania anatopretia n. gen. n. sp.9
Nanolania anatopretia n. gen. n. sp.9 Yates 2000 tetrapod
QM F12293 (holotype). QM F14480 35247, 35393, 39666
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Tasmaniosaurus triassicus5 Camp and Banks 1978 archosauromorph
QM F9549
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
Eomurruna yurrgensis n. gen. n. sp.2
Eomurruna yurrgensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Hamley et al. 2021 parareptile
Holotype: QMF 18335 (Figs 3, 5A–D, 6, 14, 15, 18–22). An articulated skeleton, missing most of the right limbs and the tail, collected by Ruth Lane in 1985.