Gola Beds B520 (Cambrian to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.5° S, 140.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 176.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Franconian to Franconian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, gray grainstone

• A layer of pale grey, white or greenish weathering, coarse-grained glauconitic calcarenite which forms a low bench

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Georgina Basin Party in 1957

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: J. H. Shergold. 1971. Late Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Gola Beds, western Queensland. Commonwealth of Australia, Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology, and Geophysics Bullein 112:1-87 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198276: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 13.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Coelocerodontus primitivus, Coelocerodontus tricarinatus
  -
Sagittodontus eureka, Sagittodontus furnishi
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Kaolishaniidae
Palacorona bacculata, Mansuyites futiliformis, Kaolishania australis n. sp.
Palacorona bacculata Shergold 1971 trilobite
Mansuyites futiliformis Shergold 1971 trilobite
Kaolishania australis n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Eoshumardia cylindrica
Eoshumardia cylindrica Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Sigmakainella longilira n. sp., Sigmakainella translira
Sigmakainella longilira n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
Sigmakainella translira Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Golasaphus momedahensis n. gen. n. sp.
Golasaphus momedahensis n. gen. n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Lophosaukia torquata n. gen. n. sp.
Lophosaukia torquata n. gen. n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Duplora clara
Duplora clara Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Lorrettina macrops n. gen. n. sp.
Lorrettina macrops n. gen. n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Pseudagnostus clavus" = Neoagnostus clavus, Geragnostus (Micragnostus) acrolebes
"Pseudagnostus clavus" = Neoagnostus clavus Shergold 1971
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus "sp. I", Pseudagnostus "sp. II", Pseudagnostus "sp. III", Pseudagnostus papilio
Pseudagnostus papilio Shergold 1971
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
? Eoorthis sp.
? Eoorthis sp. Walcott 1908
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Acrotreta sp.
Acrotreta sp. Kutorga 1848
 Lingulida - Obolidae
? Westonia sp.
? Westonia sp. Walcott 1901
Rudagnostus
  -
Rudagnostus avius n. sp.
Rudagnostus avius n. sp. Shergold 1971