MUM Near Alison, Dungog district (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.4° S, 151.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 145.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schellwienella burlingtonensis brachiopod zone, Ararat Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, calcareous sandstone and lithified limestone

• [The Ararat Formation] is composed of calcareous tuffaceous sandstone with minor mudstones and oolitic and crinoidal limestone lenses.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Specimens reposited in The Univeristy of New South Wales Palaeontological Collection

Primary reference: T. A. Vanderlaan and M. C. Ebach. 2015. A review of the Carboniferous and Permian trilobites of Australia. Zootaxa 3926(1):1-56 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217049: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.01.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Monodechenella subtriangularis
Monodechenella subtriangularis Engel and Morris 1984 trilobite