NMVPL184. Digger Island. Waratah Bay (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 146.0° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 168.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Psigraptus graptolite zone, Digger Island Formation, Lancefieldian (484.3 - 474.9 Ma)

• Correlative of Kainella meridionalis zone from Argentina. Upper part of the formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, brown mudstone

• brown decalcified mudstone with the trilobites and associates;

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. A. Jell. 1985. Tremadoc trilobites of the Digger Island Formation, Waratah Bay, Victoria. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 46:53-88 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165725: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 27.01.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Parahystricurus cf. fraudator Ross 1951 trilobite
Parahystricurus sp. cf. P. fraudator
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Leiostegium cf. manitouensis Walcott 1925 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Natmus tuberus n. sp., Natmus victus n. gen. n. sp.
Natmus tuberus n. sp. trilobite
Natmus victus n. gen. n. sp. trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
"Australoharpes singletoni n. sp." = Dubhglasina singletoni, "Australoharpes expansus n. sp." = Dubhglasina expansus, Brachyhipposiderus logimus n. gen. n. sp.
"Australoharpes singletoni n. sp." = Dubhglasina singletoni Jell 1985 trilobite
"Australoharpes expansus n. sp." = Dubhglasina expansus Jell 1985 trilobite
Brachyhipposiderus logimus n. gen. n. sp. Jell 1985 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Onychopyge parkerae n. sp. trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia erquensis Kobayashi 1937 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Pilekia sp. Barton 1915 trilobite
Victorispina holmesorum n. gen. n. sp. trilobite
Landyia elizabethae n. gen. n. sp. trilobite
? Tesselacauda sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Protopliomerops lindneri n. sp. trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae