Locality 16. BC 5*. Barrow Creek (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as 514 mm E X 137 mm N Barrow Creek map

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (22.0° S, 134.8° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 177.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower beds Member (Tomahawk Formation), Payntonian (489.5 - 488.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, brown sandstone

• brownish glauconitic quartz sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K.G. Smith in 1961

• 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 77438: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Kimopegma pinnatum n. sp.
Kimopegma pinnatum n. sp. Pojeta et al. 1977
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
Cymatopegma semiplicatum n. sp.
Cymatopegma semiplicatum n. sp. Pojeta et al. 1977
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
"? Coreanocephalus sp." = Changia
"? Coreanocephalus sp." = Changia Sun 1924 trilobite
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
? Saukia sp., ? Mictosaukia sp.
? Saukia sp. Walcott 1914 trilobite
? Mictosaukia sp. Shergold 1975 trilobite