QGS L3004. Trilobite Ridge, Mt. Morgan (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.4° S, 150.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 141.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schellwienella burlingtonensis brachiopod zone, Malchi Creek Formation (Rockhampton Group), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Given as just Malchi formation by Australian Stratigraphic Units Database. Overlies Gudman Oolite and underlies Lion Creek Limestone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and limestone

• Silicified mudstone, lithic sandstone, oolitic limestone, conglomerate (from https://asud.ga.gov.au/search-stratigraphic-units/results/11082)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. A. Engel and N. Morris. 1992. Aulacopleuridae and Brachymetopidae (Trilobita) from the Lower Carboniferous of eastern Australia (II) Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) and Australosutura. Geologica et Palaeontologica 26:73-97 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 223681: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.11.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) regularis, Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) dunstani, Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) intermedius
Brachymetopus (Brachymetopus) intermedius Engel and Morris 1992 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Monodechenella subquadrata, "Phillipsia morganensis n. sp." = Monodechenella morganensis
Monodechenella subquadrata Engel and Morris 1984 trilobite
= Phillipsia woodwardi; Mitchell 1918, pl. 51, fig. 13, pl. 52, fig. 2.
"Phillipsia morganensis n. sp." = Monodechenella morganensis Mitchell 1918 trilobite