Southsoutheast of Barrow (Silurian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.8° S, 146.4° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 172.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Cookeys Plains Formation), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• Given as only Derriwong Beds. However, it is from below the Byong Volcanics, which now is the (informal) lower part of the Cookeyes Plains. This is now thought to be Pridoli.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: R. S. Landrum and L. Sherwin. 1976. Warburgella from central New South Wales. Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales 17(2):135-147 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216421: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Warburgella (Anambon) jelli Landrum and Sherwin 1976 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Retziellidae
Molongia elegans
Molongia elegans capricorniae