Also known as L128
Where: Queensland, Australia (19.6° S, 138.9° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° N, 172.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ptychagnostus atavus trilobite zone, Gowers Formation, Floran (504.5 - 503.0 Ma)
• Ptychagnostus atavus zone (post-Templetonian); was Currant Bush formation, but lower part is now Gowers Formation (Southgate 1986)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Jell (1975 Palaeontographica A) has rest of the fauna.
Primary reference: B. Runnegar and P.A. Jell. 1976. Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution. Alcheringa 1(1/2):109-138 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56809: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Helcionelloida | |
Protowenella flemingi n. gen. n. sp.
Protowenella flemingi n. gen. n. sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976 | |
Mellopegma georginensis n. gen. n. sp.
Mellopegma georginensis n. gen. n. sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976 | |
Pelagiella deltoides n. sp., Pelagiella corinthiana n. sp.
Pelagiella deltoides n. sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976
Pelagiella corinthiana n. sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976 | |
Rostroconchia | |
"? Myona queenslandica n. sp." = Pseudomyona queenslandica
"? Myona queenslandica n. sp." = Pseudomyona queenslandica Runnegar and Jell 1976 |