Locality 126/3 (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.5° S, 138.8° E: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 172.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Nora Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; fine-grained sandstone and fine-grained siltstone

• 20 m of varicoloured siltstone and sandstone layers separated by intervals of no outcrop.

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected in 1976

Primary reference: R. A. Fortey and J. H. Shergold. 1984. Early Ordovician trilobites, Nora Formation, central Australia. Palaeontology 27:315-366 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157061: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 05.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Nautiloids, bivalves, brachiopods, ostracodes also present
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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Annamitella strigifrons
Annamitella strigifrons Fortey and Shergold 1984 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Norasaphus vesiculosus, Lycophron rex
Norasaphus vesiculosus Fortey and Shergold 1984 trilobite
subgenus Norasaphites
Lycophron rex Fortey and Shergold 1984 trilobite
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Hungioides acutinasus n. sp.
Hungioides acutinasus n. sp. Fortey and Shergold 1984 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Nambeetella embolion n. sp.
Nambeetella embolion n. sp. Fortey and Shergold 1984 trilobite
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Carolinites cf. ekphymosus
Carolinites cf. ekphymosus Fortey 1975 trilobite