NU L404. Nooroo - Stroud Road cutting, Nooroo (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.4° S, 151.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 153.2° E)

When: Delepinea aspinosa brachiopod zone, Wootton Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• Informal unit underlying Copeland Road and Conger formations.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and siltstone

• Thin bedded brown - grey, barren mudstone and siltstone with interbeds of lithic sandstone (frequently turbiditic) and conglomerate in lower sections; upper parts with fossiliferous grey to brown mudstone, thinner bedded lithic sandstone and oolitic lime (https://asud.ga.gov.au/search-stratigraphic-units/results/20622)

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217059: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.01.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Palaeophillipsia collinsi, "Phillipsia coulteri n. sp." = Australokaskia coulteri, "Australokaskia (Planilobus) noorooensis n. sp." = Australokaskia noorooensis
"Phillipsia coulteri n. sp." = Australokaskia coulteri Mitchell 1918 trilobite
"Australokaskia (Planilobus) noorooensis n. sp." = Australokaskia noorooensis Engel and Morris 1995 trilobite