Regans Creek (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.5° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 176.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taoqupognathus tumidus - Protopanderodus insculptus conodont zone, Malongulli Formation, Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Horizon near the base of the Malongulli Formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• allchthonous limestone breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. D. Webby, H. T. Moors, and R. A. McLean. 1970. Malongullia and Encrinuraspis, New Ordovician Trilobites from New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Paleontology 44(5):881-887 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192952: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.04.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
"Encrinuraspis optimus" = Cromus optimus
"Encrinuraspis optimus" = Cromus optimus Webby et al. 1970 trilobite