D-BSW Black Soil 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• low-moderate energy, deep neritic (at or below wave base) outer shelf to upper slope
• predominantly packstones and wackestones, with minor grainstones and 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 64047: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods and echinoderms reported to be present, but not listed.
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Zhanatellidae
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolidae indet. King 1846
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Anabolotreta sp. Rowell and Henderson 1978
several species
Treptotreta sp. Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
several species
Treptotreta jucunda Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
Stilpnotreta magna Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
Linnarssonia sp. Walcott 1885
several species
Neotreta sp. Sobolev 1976
several species
Picnotreta sp. Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
several species
Picnotreta debilis Henderson and MacKinnon 1981
Quadrisonia sp. Rowell and Henderson 1978
several species
Dactylotreta sp. Rowell and Henderson 1978
several species
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Rhyssometopidae
 Corynexochida - Tsinaniidae
Tsinaniidae indet. Kobayashi 1933 trilobite
Tsinaniidae indet. 1
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Corynexochus plumula Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
 Olenida - Asaphiscidae
Mindycrusta oepiki n. sp. trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Tomagnostella sp. Kobayashi 1939
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Ammagnostus sp. Opik 1967
 Agnostida - Agnostidae