Gympie (Daintree coll) (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (26.2° S, 152.7° E: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 163.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Not listed, but based on nearby localities probably Rammutt Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by R. Daintree

• Specimens shipped to Etheridge in London but presumably returned to Australia. In 1892 Etheridge junior mentioned that the Daintree collection had become scattered, but that he had received some of the mollusca from the Queensland Museum. Some of the specimens collected by Daintree are housed in the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, but it has not been possible to locate the types of E. concentrica and E. obovata, and it is most likely that both specimens are permanently lost.

Primary reference: R. Etheridge. 1872. Description of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic fossils of Queensland. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 28:317-360 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134036: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Anidanthus cessnockensis1 Briggs 1998
var. analoga
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
""Spirifera" bisulcata" = Spirifer, Spirifera dubia n. sp.
""Spirifera" bisulcata" = Spirifer
var. acuta
Spirifera dubia n. sp. Etheridge 1872
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Ingelarella strzeleckii2 de Koninck 1877
var. undulata
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Cerioporidae
"Ceriopora" laxa n. sp. Etheridge 1872
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
? Euomphalus sp. Sowerby 1814 snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
"Aviculopecten ? limaeformis" = Deltopecten limaeformis, "Aviculopecten imbricatus n. sp." = Deltopecten limaeformis, "Aviculopecten multiradiatus n. sp." = Deltopecten limaeformis
"Aviculopecten ? limaeformis" = Deltopecten limaeformis Morris 1845 scallop
"Aviculopecten imbricatus n. sp." = Deltopecten limaeformis Morris 1845 scallop
"Aviculopecten multiradiatus n. sp." = Deltopecten limaeformis Morris 1845 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
"Edmondia concentrica" = Pyramus concentricus
"Edmondia concentrica" = Pyramus concentricus Etheridge 1872 clam
Original type, but since lost