Locality 8. NT 187. Ross River bank, 3.2 kilometers south of Loves Creek Homestead (now Ross RIver Resort) (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.6° S, 134.5° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 178.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Goyder Formation, Payntonian (489.5 - 488.3 Ma)

• near Girvanella band

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ooidal, gray limestone

• Hard, grey, with dark spots and "cystid" fragments, almost aphanitic. Rostroconchs in oolitc 1st with aphanitic layers.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Gilbert-Tomlinson & C.E. Prichard in 1956

• 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 77426: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
Oepikila cambrica
Oepikila cambrica Runnegar and Pojeta 1974
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Pleuropegma plicatum n. gen. n. sp.
Pleuropegma plicatum n. gen. n. sp. Pojeta et al. 1977
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Homagnostus" "sp. nov."
Trilobita
  - Monkaspididae
Metopotropis "sp. nov."
Metopotropis "sp. nov." Opik 1967 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Liostracinidae
Liostracina cf. krausei
Liostracina cf. krausei Monke 1903 trilobite
 Asaphida - Rhyssometopidae
? Plectrifer "sp. nov."
? Plectrifer "sp. nov." Opik 1967 trilobite