Black Mountain K110 (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.5° S, 140.3° E: paleocoordinates 24.5° N, 174.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chatsworth Limestone Formation, Iverian (498.5 - 494.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, sandy limestone

• medium gray brownish weathering bioclastic crystalline limestone with scattered fine quartz grains

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Shergold in 1967, 1969

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: J. H. Shergold. 1975. Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician trilobites from the Burke River Structural Belt, western Queensland, Australia. Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Minerals and Energy, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 153:1-251 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198296: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 14.12.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleuridae
Atratebia nexosa Shergold 1975 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Kaolishaniidae