Lily Creek Section K203 (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.0° S, 140.3° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 174.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peichiashania secunda - Prochuangia glabella trilobite zone, Chatsworth Formation, Iverian (494.0 - 489.5 Ma)

• Should be Jiangshanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, peloidal, sandy grainstone

• "rocks were deposited in high energy shallow subtidal, intertidal and possibly aeolian environments"
• A 12 cm layer of cross-laminated sandy pelletal skeletal grainstone, with partial silicification of pelmatozoan grains.."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Shergold in 1969

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. H. Shergold. 1980. Late Cambrian trilobites from the Chatsworth Limestone, western Queensland. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 186:1-108 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228026: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 18.11.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Pelmatozoa indet.
Pelmatozoa indet. Leuckart 1848
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Cermatops vieta
Cermatops vieta Shergold 1980 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Atopasaphus cf. stenocanthus
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Lotosoides bathyora, Prochuangia glabella
Lotosoides bathyora Shergold 1980 trilobite
Prochuangia glabella Shergold 1980 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus sp.
Pseudagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909