Coonigan Fm. Trilobites, New South Wales (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.2° S, 141.3° E: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 163.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Shale Member (Coonigan Formation), Solvan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• Middle Cambrian, above first discovery limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, white shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: J. Roberts and P. A. Jell. 1990. Early Middle Cambrian (Ordian) Brachiopods of the Coonigan Formation, Western New-South-Wales. Alcheringa 14(3-4):257-309 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56533: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 21.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Xystriduridae
Xystridura sp. Whitehouse 1936 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
"Oryctocephalus cf. reynoldsi" = Oryctocephalites reynoldsi, "Oryctocephalus opiki" = Oryctocephalites opiki, Sandoveria lobata
"Oryctocephalus cf. reynoldsi" = Oryctocephalites reynoldsi Reed 1899 trilobite
"Oryctocephalus opiki" = Oryctocephalites opiki Shergold 1969 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dinesidae
Dinesus sp. Etheridge 1896 trilobite