NU L39. Cameron’s Bridge, Rouchel Brook (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.1° S, 151.1° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 144.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pustula gracilis brachiopod zone, Waverley Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• Medium-coarse grained, pinkish brown to green crossbedded lithic sandstone, conglomerate and heavy mineral sandstone in the west; increasing amounts of thin, laminated mudstone and minor oolitic/biogenic limestone in east near Omadale Brook. (From https://asud.ga.gov.au/search-stratigraphic-units/results/25608)

Size class: macrofossils

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217053: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.01.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Monodechenella subquadrata Engel and Morris 1984 trilobite
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Linguaphillipsia parvula Engel and Morris 1996 trilobite
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae