UQ L4639, Bowen River, Exmoor Homestead (Permian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.9° S, 148.1° E: paleocoordinates 56.2° S, 140.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudostrophalosia blakei brachiopod zone, Moonlight Sandstone Member (Blenheim Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Presence of Pseudostrophalosia blakei suggests an age within the P. blakei zone, correlated with the lower part of APP4.3 palynomorph zone (Briggs, 1998). The APP4.3 zone was constrained as mid-Wuchiapingian age by U-Pb dating in Laurie et al. (2016).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the UQ

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse and J. S. Jell. 1983. The sequence of Permian rocks and faunas near Exmoor Homestead south of Collinsville, north Bowen Basin. Permian Geology of Queensland 231-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104740: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Pleurocinctosa trifilata Dana 1847 snail
 Euomphalina -
? Neoplatyteichum numerosum Waterhouse 1983 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma" sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
1 left. Not illustrated, perhaps Cyrtorostra
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
Etheripecten chandleri Waterhouse 1982 scallop
4 left
Etheripecten plicatus Waterhouse 1983 scallop
31 left, 9 right, 5 conjoined
Etheripecten leniusculus Dana 1847 scallop
6 left, 3 right, 2 conjoined
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Merismopteria macroptera Morris 1845 oyster
40 left, 21 right, 43 conjoined
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
"Megadesmus grandis" = Megadesmus (Cleobis) grandis
"Megadesmus grandis" = Megadesmus (Cleobis) grandis Dana 1847 clam
6 left, 1 conjoined
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Myonia (Myomedia) carinata Morris 1845 clam
1 left
Vacunella oblonga Waterhouse 1969 clam
1 conjoined
Vacunella curvata Morris 1845 clam
1 left, 1 conjoined
 Solenida - Konduriidae
? Palaeosolen permiana Waterhouse 1980 clam
1 right, 1 conjoined
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Terrakea brachythaera Morris 1845
15 ventral, 2 dorsal, 7 conjoined
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Pseudostrophalosia blakei Dear 1971
1 ventral
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
"Punctocyrtella nobilis" = Cyrtella nobilis
"Punctocyrtella nobilis" = Cyrtella nobilis Armstrong 1970
2 conjoined
 Spiriferida - Ingelarellidae
Glendonia duodecimcostata M'Coy 1847
59 ventral, 31 dorsal, 24 conjoined
"Tomiopsis magna" = Johndearia magna Campbell 1960
8 ventral, 1 dorsal, 5 conjoined
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Sulciplica transversa Waterhouse 1968
13 ventral, 5 dorsal, 6 conjoined
 Terebratulida - Gillediidae
"Gilledia ulladullensis" = Paragilledia ulladullensis
"Gilledia ulladullensis" = Paragilledia ulladullensis Campbell 1965
5 ventral, 9 conjoined
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Fletcherithyris antesulcata n. sp. Waterhouse 1983
16 ventral, 10 dorsal, 33 conjoined