Gola Beds B750 (Cambrian to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.5° S, 140.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 176.0° 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, gray, sandy lime mudstone

• Light to medium grey, or brownish grey, fine to medium-grained sandy calcilutite

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 198279: 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 burkei, Coelocerodontus rotundatus, Coelocerodontus tricarinatus
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
"Oneotodus nakamurai" = Teridontus nakamurai
"Oneotodus nakamurai" = Teridontus nakamurai Nogami 1967 conodont
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Geragnostus (Micragnostus) acrolebes n. sp., "Distagnostus ergodes" = Lotagnostus (Distagnostus) ergodes, "Pseudagnostus clavus n. sp." = Neoagnostus clavus
"Distagnostus ergodes" = Lotagnostus (Distagnostus) ergodes Shergold 1971
"Pseudagnostus clavus n. sp." = Neoagnostus clavus Shergold 1971
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus papilio
Pseudagnostus papilio Shergold 1971
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Kaolishaniidae
Mansuyites futiliformis n. gen. n. sp., Palacorona bacculata n. gen. n. sp.
Mansuyites futiliformis n. gen. n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
Palacorona bacculata n. gen. n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Eoshumardia cylindrica n. sp.
Eoshumardia cylindrica n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Asaphida - Eurekiidae
Tostonia sp.
Tostonia sp. Walcott 1924 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Golasaphus momedahensis, Atopasaphus petasatus n. gen. n. sp.
Golasaphus momedahensis Shergold 1971 trilobite
Atopasaphus petasatus n. gen. n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Sigmakainella translira n. gen. n. sp., "Richardsonella laciniosa n. sp." = Mendosina laciniosa, ? Richardsonella kainelliformis n. sp.
Sigmakainella translira n. gen. n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
"Richardsonella laciniosa n. sp." = Mendosina laciniosa Shergold 1971 trilobite
? Richardsonella kainelliformis n. sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Crucicephalus ocellatus
Crucicephalus ocellatus Shergold 1971 trilobite
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Acrotreta sp.
Acrotreta sp. Kutorga 1848
 Lingulida - Obolidae
? Westonia sp.
? Westonia sp. Walcott 1901