Where: Queensland, Australia (19.6° S, 138.9° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 171.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Gowers Formation, Templetonian to Templetonian (508.0 - 503.0 Ma)
• Euagnostus opimus zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, phosphatic lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
Collection methods: bulk,
• All material is housed in the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) or in the Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Bonn (IPB)
Primary reference: P. D. Kruse. 2002. Biostratigraphic potential of Middle Cambrian hyoliths from the eastern Georgina Basin. Alcheringa 26(3):353-398 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69997: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 14.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hyolitha | |
Orthothecimorpha | |
Hyolithomorpha | |