Section 705/182 (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.7° S, 125.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.7° N, 161.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Priceaspis oepiki - Priceaspis rochei trilobite zone, Emanuel Formation, Bendigonian (474.9 - 473.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular limestone and lithified siltstone

• Middle member of 143 m with abundant beds of limestone or large (>100 mm) limestone nodules interbedded with siltstone and shale

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. R. Laurie and J. H. Shergold. 1996. Early Ordovician trilobite taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the Emanuel Formation, Canning Basin, western Australia. Part 1. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 240(1-3):65-103 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157176: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.06.2014, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Libecoviella divaricata
Libecoviella divaricata Brock and Holmer 2004
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Ottenbyella shidertensis
Ottenbyella shidertensis Popov and Holmer 1994
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Priceaspis ? oepiki, Emanuelaspis (Emanuelina) expansa n. sp.
Emanuelaspis (Emanuelina) expansa n. sp. Laurie and Shergold 1996 trilobite