Where: Queensland, Australia (21.9° S, 140.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.0° N, 174.9° 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, peloidal, shelly/skeletal, silty grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Shergold, F. de Keyser, C.E. Murrary, R. Thieme in 1968
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 228220: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 23.11.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Artiopoda | |
Connagnostus sp. Opik 1967
Connagnostus aversus Shergold 1980
Acmarhachis hybrida n. sp. Shergold 1980 | |
Pseudagnostus mortensis Shergold 1980 | |
Peratagnostus cf. nobilis Opik 1967 | |
Trilobita | |
Wentsuia iota Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Haniwoides varia Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
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Taenicephalites plerus Shergold 1980 trilobite | |
Plicatolina cf. yakutica trilobite | |
Maladioidella doylei Shergold 1980 trilobite |