QML 1083 - Nuggety Gully, East Gorge along PharLap Rd. (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Labrocuspis Community, Papilio Mudstone, Broken River Province, N Queensland

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.5° S, 144.7° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° S, 150.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Papilio Mudstone Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate and coarse-grained sandstone

• See lithology.
• "The Labrocuspis Community is found in conglomerates and coarse sandstones interpreted as high energy facies at the basal Paplio Mudstone near 'Nuggety Gully' area and from similar sandstones in the upper-most Paplio Mudstone or lowermost Mytton Formation in the 'Spanner Hill' area."

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: A. G. Cook and N. Camilleri. 1997. Middle Devonian gastropods from the Broken River Province, north Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(1):55-79 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39871: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Only gastropods are reported in detail.
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Burdikinia burdekinensis Etheridge 1917 snail
 Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
Labrocuspis nodosa Heidecker 1959 snail