PL1369, Springfield (Silurian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (35.6° S, 143.1° E: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 171.0° E)

When: Pterospathodus celloni conodont zone, Calton Hill Sandstone Member (Springfield Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Springfield is Aeronian - Telychian, but this is from near top of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. C. Sanford and D. J. Holloway. 2008. Early Silurian phacopide trilobites from central Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63(2):215-255 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192918: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.04.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Preodontochile springfieldensis n. sp. Sanford and Holloway 2008 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacopidae "gen. indet." Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite