Site A. 7 km west of Mt. Wright (Cambrian of Australia)
Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.2° S, 142.3° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 159.6° W)
When: Acimetopus bilobatus trilobite zone, Cymbric Vale Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous siltstone
• 6 m of a grey, hard, and apparently tuffaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. A. Öpik. 1975. Cymbric Vale fauna of New South Wales and Early Cambrian biostratigraphy. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australia 159:1-78 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 225136: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.04.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Porifera "indet. Spicules" Grant 1836 | |
Eocrinoidea | |
Eocrinoidea sp. Jaekel 1918 | |
Helcionelloida | |
Helcionella "indet.", "Scenella aff. antiqua" = Marocella antiqua
Helcionella "indet." Grabau and Shimer 1909
"Scenella aff. antiqua" = Marocella antiqua Kiær 1916 | |
Tergomya | |
Scenella reticulata Billings 1872 | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolithes "sp. indet." d'Eichwald 1840 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingulella "sp. indet." Salter 1866 | |
Neobolus "sp. indet." Waagen 1885
Botsfordia cf. caelata Hall 1847 | |
Artiopoda | |
Serrodiscus daedalus Öpik 1975 | |
"Discomesites fragum" = Pagetides fragum, "Discomesites lunatulus" = Pagetides
"Discomesites fragum" = Pagetides fragum Öpik 1975
"Discomesites lunatulus" = Pagetides | |
Trilobita | |
Dinesus aff. granulosus trilobite | |
Redlichia "sp. indet." Cossmann 1902 trilobite | |
"Strenax (Sematiscus) fletcheri" = Estaingia fletcheri, Estaingia bilobata, "Strenax cerastes" = Estaingia cerastes
"Strenax (Sematiscus) fletcheri" = Estaingia fletcheri Öpik 1975 trilobite
Estaingia bilobata Pocock 1964 trilobite
"Strenax cerastes" = Estaingia cerastes Öpik 1975 trilobite |