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
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by BMR field party in 1957-1960
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 228184: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 22.11.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Pelmatozoa indet. Leuckart 1848 | |
Trilobita | |
Maladioidella doylei Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Taenicephalites plerus Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Atopasaphus cf. stenocanthus trilobite | |
Cermatops vieta Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Prochuangia glabella Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Peichiashania prima Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Pseudagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909 |