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
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 | |
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866 | |
"Acrotretacea indet." = Acrotretoidea
"Acrotretacea indet." = Acrotretoidea Schuchert 1893 | |
Ostracoda | |
Oepikaluta dissuta n. gen. n. sp.
Oepikaluta dissuta n. gen. n. sp. ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Asthenopsis sp. Whitehouse 1939 trilobite | |
Anomocare sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite |