Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.7° S, 134.4° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 178.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower beds Member (Pacoota Formation), Payntonian (489.5 - 488.3 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Gilbert-Tomlinson in 1964
• CPC specimens
Primary reference: J. Pojeta, J. Gilbert-Tomlinson, and J.H. Shergold. 1977. Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 171:1-54 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77420: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tergomya | |
? Hypseloconus sp. Berkey 1898 | |
Rostroconchia | |
Cymatopegma semiplicatum Pojeta et al. 1977
Pinnocaris robusta Pojeta et al. 1977 | |
Trilobita | |
aff. Mictosaukia sp. Shergold 1975 trilobite
? Tellerina sp. Ulrich and Resser 1933 trilobite |