Where: Queensland, Australia (21.8° S, 140.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 168.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Beetle Creek Formation, Templetonian (508.0 - 504.5 Ma)
• 'Siltstone Member'(up to 60 m thick); hardground unit; Xystridura templetonensis zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, hardground, phosphatic lime mudstone and lithified, intraclastic, peloidal, black packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
Collection methods: bulk,
• All material is housed in the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) or in the Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Bonn (IPB)
Primary reference: P. D. Kruse. 2002. Biostratigraphic potential of Middle Cambrian hyoliths from the eastern Georgina Basin. Alcheringa 26(3):353-398 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70041: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 15.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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