D-GG Garvey Gully, Dolodrook River, E Victoria (Cambrian to of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.6° S, 146.6° E: paleocoordinates 14.5° N, 159.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "Dolodrook River Limestone" Formation, Mindyallan to Mindyallan (499.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• Late Mindyallan-Idamean; The Dolodrook River Limestones are small inliers protruding through the Middle Ordovician Garvey Gully Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified grainstone and lithified packstone

• low-moderate energy, deep neritic (at or below wave base) outer shelf to upper slope
• grainstones, packstones, wackestones; minor mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. R. Paterson and J. R. Laurie. 2004. Late Cambrian trilobites from the Dolodrook River limestones, eastern Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 30:83-111 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64043: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods, echinoderms and molluscs (minor) reported to be present, but not listed.
Show authors, comments, and common names
Trilobita
 Olenida - Asaphiscidae
Mindycrusta oepiki
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Eugonocare tessellatum
Eugonocare tessellatum Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Tricrepicephalidae
Meteoraspis etheridgei
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Corynexochus plumula
Corynexochus plumula Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Innitagnostus inexpectans
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus idalis
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Peratagnostus aff. invalidus
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Dictyonina sp., Micromitra sp. n. sp., Micromitra modesta
Dictyonina sp. Cooper 1942
Micromitra sp. n. sp. Meek 1873
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Treptotreta sp., Treptotreta jucunda, Dactylotreta redunca, Dactylotreta sp., Anabolotreta tegula, Anabolotreta sp., Picnotreta sp., Picnotreta debilis, Stilpnotreta magna, "Linnarssonia sp." = Linnarssonia, "Pegmatreta ? clavigera" = Linnarssonia, Quadrisonia sp., Neotreta sp.
Treptotreta sp. Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
several species
Treptotreta jucunda Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
Dactylotreta sp. Rowell and Henderson 1978
several species
Anabolotreta sp. Rowell and Henderson 1978
several species
Picnotreta sp. Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
several species
Picnotreta debilis Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
Stilpnotreta magna Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
"Linnarssonia sp." = Linnarssonia Walcott 1885
several species
"Pegmatreta ? clavigera" = Linnarssonia
Quadrisonia sp. Rowell and Henderson 1978
Neotreta sp. Sobolev 1976
several species
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolidae indet.
Obolidae indet. King 1846
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
Orbithele sp., ? Acrothele sp.
Orbithele sp. Sdzuy 1955
? Acrothele sp. Linnarsson 1876