Carboniferous fish remains from the far-northern Drummond Basin

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by  S Turner

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786 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM
CARBONIFEROUS FISH REMAINS FROM THE Acknowledgements
FAR-NORTHERNDRUMMONDBASIN.Memoirsofthe We thank Reid Russell ofPlain Creek for bringing this
Queensland Museum 43(2): 786. 1999:- The Drummond material to our attention and kindly donating it to the
Basin has yielded modest Carboniferous fish faunas (e.g. Museum.
Turner, 1993;Foxetal., 1995),butthesehavebeenrestricted
tothecentral and southernpartsofthe basin. Morerecently Literaturecited
thediscoveryoftetrapodmaterial{Thulbornetal., 1996)has FOX, R.C., CAMPBELL, K.S.W., BARW1CK, R.E. &
intensified the basin-wide search for vertebrate fossil sites LONG, J.A. 1995.Anewosteolepiform fish fromthe
which could be ofsignificance in understanding the early Lower Carboniferous Raymond Formation,
evolution ofterrestrial and freshwatervertebrates in eastern Drummond Basin, Queensland. Memoirs of the
Gondwana. Queensland Museum38(1):97-221.
Weherereporttheoccurrenceofasmallfossil faunafrom OLGERS, F. 1972. Geology of the Drummond Basin,
the Bulliwallah Formation, near Plain Creek, 23°33.04'S, Queensland. Bureau ofMineral Resources, Geology
146°29.95,E,NWofBelyandoCrossing,CEQ(=QML1156). andGeophvsicsBulletin 132: 1-78.
The Bulliwallah Formation is regarded as a freshwater THULBORN,T.,*WARREN,A.,TURNER,S.&HAMLEY,
deposit and has been assigned a Visean age (Olgers, 1972) T. 1996. Earlv Carboniferous tetrapods in Australia.
and isthoughttobe equivalenttothe DucabrookFormation Nature381: 777-780.
(Tweedale, 1960).Thissiteissignificantinthatitcontainsthe TURNER, S. 1993. Early Carboniferous microvertebrates
firstPalaeozoicnon-marinevertebratespreservedinnodules, fromtheNarrienRange,centralQueensland.Memoirs
and it is of similar age to fossil localities to the south oftheAssociationofAustralasianPalaeontologists. 15
containingtetrapodremains. 289-304.
Material fromthissiteispreservedinbuff-toorange-grey TWEEDALE, G.W. 1960. The Drummond Basin. Pp.
claystone nodules, which were dredged from an earth dam 175-181. In Hill, D. & Denmead, A.K. (eds) The
during construction. The fauna includes a large spine of Geology of Queensland. Journal of the Geological
Gyracanthidessp.(Fig. 1),lAcanthodes(QMF39822,spines SocietyofAustralia7.
andscales)andpalaeoniscoidremains(QMF39823,possible SusanTurner&AlexG. Cook, QueenslandMuseum. POBox
skull fragments).
3300, SouthBrisbane4101, Australia; 6November, 1998.
FIG. 1. A, B. Gyracanthidessp.. spine.QMF39821, x32.