Black Mountain K111 (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 (494.0 - 489.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, peloidal, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy grainstone

• 5-7.5 cm layer of medium gray biomicrite grading into pelsparite with partly silicified matrix; fossil fragments have sparry infilling

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 198297: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 14.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleuridae
Atratebia nexosa Shergold 1975 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
? Richardsonella sp. Raymond 1924 trilobite
Sigmakainella translira Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Prosaukia "sp.A" Ulrich and Resser 1933 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Duplora clara Shergold 1971 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Kaolishaniidae
Brachiopoda
 Brachiopoda -