Also known as L132
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 (507.0 - 505.0 Ma)
• Was Menevian and Currant Bush Formation; however, Southgate separated lower Currant Bush into the Gowers Formation.
• 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 56810: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia | |
"Myona queenslandica" = Pseudomyona queenslandica
"Myona queenslandica" = Pseudomyona queenslandica Runnegar and Jell 1976 | |
Helcionelloida | |
Pelagiella corinthiana Runnegar and Jell 1976
Pelagiella deltoides Runnegar and Jell 1976 |