Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.8° S, 146.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 156.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Boomerangian (500.5 - 499.0 Ma)

• North Australia: Lejopyge laevigata Zone (possibly L. laevigata II); South China: L. laevigata and particularly Proagnostus bulbus Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow, cherty/siliceous siltstone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: bulk,

• Collection housed in School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania (UTGD); latex and silicone rubber casts were prepared proir to photography; many of the fossils were originally collected by JBJ in 1967-70 as apart of a doctoral study

Primary reference: J. B. Jago, J.-S. Bao, and P. W. Baillie. 2004. Late Middle Cambrian trilobites from St Valentines Peak and Native Track Tier, northwestern Tasmania. Alcheringa 28(1):21-52 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69973: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 13.03.2007

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