Where: Queensland, Australia (22.0° S, 140.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.0° N, 174.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wentsuia iota - Rhaptagnostus apsis trilobite zone, Chatsworth Formation, Iverian (494.0 - 489.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Shergold, F. de Keyser, C.E. Murrary, R. Thieme in 1958
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 228203: 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 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Trilobita | |
Cermatops vieta Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Lorrettina depressa Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Maladioidella doylei Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Taenicephalites plerus Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Wentsuia iota Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Rhaptagnostus apsis n. sp.
Rhaptagnostus apsis n. sp. Shergold 1980 | |
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 |