Locality 82. 310/5-74. “Old Huckitta,” 0.8 kilometers east of locality 61 (PBDB 77530) (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as 237 mm E x 178 mm N HUCKITTA map

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (22.7° S, 133.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 176.8° 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; sandstone

• Massive sugary yellow quartz sandstone with rottenstone layers

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.H. Shergold & J. Pojeta in 1974

• CPC & QML 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 77649: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
Cymatopegma semiplicatum Pojeta et al. 1977
? Pinnocaris "sp. B" Etheridge 1878
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
"Quadraticephalus sp." = Changia
"Quadraticephalus sp." = Changia Sun 1924 trilobite
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Lophosaukia sp. Shergold 1971 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus sp. Jaekel 1909