NMVPL1600. Gordon River Road Section. 19 km west of Maydena) (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.7° S, 146.4° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 165.8° W)

When: Psigraptus jacksoni graptolite zone, Pontoon Hill Member (Florentine Valley Formation), Lancefieldian (484.3 - 474.9 Ma)

• La1b. Laurie (1980) shows 7 beds in this range.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow siltstone

• yellow siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: P. A. Jell and B. Stait. 1985. Tremadoc trilobites from the Florentine Valley Formation, Tim Shea area, Tasmania. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 46:1-33 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165771: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Pilekia "sp. nov." Barton 1915 trilobite
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
"Tanybregma tasmaniensis n. gen. n. sp." = Hillyardina tasmaniensis, Hystricurus penchiensis
"Tanybregma tasmaniensis n. gen. n. sp." = Hillyardina tasmaniensis Jell and Stait 1985 trilobite
Hystricurus penchiensis Lu 1976 trilobite
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Apheoorthis humboldtensis n. sp.2 Laurie 1980
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Psigraptus jacksoni1 Rickards and Stait 1984 graptolite
Stenuroidea
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Maydena roadsidensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Maydena roadsidensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Jell 2014