Locality 6. AS 350. 8 km west southwest of East Bank, Ross River valley (Cambrian of Australia)

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

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Taxonomic list

Tergomya
 Kiringellida -
? Hypseloconus sp. Berkey 1898
Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
Cymatopegma semiplicatum Pojeta et al. 1977
Pinnocaris robusta Pojeta et al. 1977
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
aff. Mictosaukia sp. Shergold 1975 trilobite
? Tellerina sp. Ulrich and Resser 1933 trilobite