Gola Beds B520B (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, ferruginous, glauconitic, gray grainstone

• Pale grey or greenish coarse-grained ferruginized glauconitic calcarenite

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 198278: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 13.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Acrotreta sp.
Acrotreta sp. Kutorga 1848
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Kaolishaniidae
Palacorona bacculata
Palacorona bacculata Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Duplora clara
Duplora clara Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
? Richardsonella sp.
? Richardsonella sp. Raymond 1924 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Golasaphus momedahensis
Golasaphus momedahensis Shergold 1971 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus sp.
Pseudagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Connagnostus junior n. sp.
Connagnostus junior n. sp. Shergold 1971