BMR loc. M126, Thorntonia Area, Georgina Basin (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.5° S, 138.8° E: paleocoordinates 26.6° N, 173.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Currant Bush Formation, Undillan (505.0 - 504.0 Ma)

• late Paradoxides paradoxissimus early P. forchhammeri stage (Swedidh)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified lime mudstone and lithified shale

• micritic limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: acetic,

• CPC Commonwealth Palaeontological Collection, housed in the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Canberra

Primary reference: P. J. Jones and K. G. McKenzie. 1980. Queensland Middle Cambrian Bradoriida (Crustacea): new taxa, palaeobiogeography and biological affinities. Alcheringa 4(3):203-225 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70047: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 15.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
 Acrotretida -
"Acrotretacea indet." = Acrotretoidea
"Acrotretacea indet." = Acrotretoidea Schuchert 1893
Ostracoda
  -
Oepikaluta dissuta n. gen. n. sp.
Oepikaluta dissuta n. gen. n. sp. ostracod
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Asthenopsis sp. Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
 Asaphida - Anomocaridae
Anomocare sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite