Lily Creek Section B54b (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, ooidal, peloidal, sandy grainstone

• "rocks were deposited in high energy shallow subtidal, intertidal and possibly aeolian environments"
• "Sandy pelletal grainstone with mudstone? laminae; Girvanella clasts, calcispheres, and minor disseminated pyrite; hand Specimen is oolitic and contains abraded brachiopods."

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 228185: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 22.11.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Eocrinoidea
  -
Eocrinoidea indet. Jaekel 1918
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Tergomya
 Tryblidiida - Tryblidiidae
Proplina sp. Kobayashi 1933
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Connagnostus aversus Shergold 1980
Trilobita
 Olenida - Idahoiidae
Maladioidella doylei Shergold 1980 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Iveria iverensis Shergold 1980 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Prochuangia glabella Shergold 1980 trilobite
Lotosoides bathyora Shergold 1980 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Cermatops vieta Shergold 1980 trilobite
Haniwoides varia n. sp. Shergold 1980 trilobite
  - Changshaniidae
Wentsuia iota Shergold 1980 trilobite