BMR loc. 640, Mt Murray, Georgina basin (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as Queensland Museum locality L113

Where: Queensland, Australia (21.8° S, 140.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 168.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Monastery Creek Phosphorite Member (Beetle Creek Formation), Templetonian (513.0 - 507.0 Ma)

• Ptychagnostus gibbus zone; Paradoxides paradoxissimus Stage (Swedish)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified phosphorite

• intacratonic basin; locality D640 represents the quieter inner margins of an ancient Bahama Banks type environment
• sediments are 'bahamites'; bedding thickness in phosphorites ranged from laminations to about 6 mm. Laminae and interbed surfaces are gently wavy, indicating slight bottom current activity.

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: acetic,

• CPC Commonwealth Palaeontological Collection, housed in the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Canberra

Primary reference: P. J. Jones and K. G. McKenzie. 1980. Queensland Middle Cambrian Bradoriida (Crustacea): new taxa, palaeobiogeography and biological affinities. Alcheringa 4(3):203-225 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70046: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 15.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Stenothecidae
Mellopegma georginensis Runnegar and Jell 1976
 Bradoriida -
Monasterium oepiki
many 1000 specimens, of which 300 were picked, 8 or 9 growth stages
 Bradoriida - Indianidae
? Indiana sipa
classification unclear (incertae familiae), as material from the family Indianidae wasn't available, authors belive it represents a new species
 Bradoriida - Bradoriidae
Bradoria sp. Mathew 1899
Ostracoda
  -
Flemingia duo n. gen. n. sp. ostracod
Svealuta "sp. A" ostracod
3 consecutive moult stages, 2 specimens from L113
Eocrinoidea
  -
Eocrinoidea indet. Jaekel 1918
possible calyx plates