Inca Shale Formation, Western Queensland, Australia - Walossek et. al. 1993 (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.0° S, 139.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 169.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inca Shale Formation, St Davids (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: concretionary, black shale

• specimens in layer of black concretions overlying the monstery creek phosphorite formation. Lithology of the concretions is not specified.

Collection methods: Material collected in 1986 as part of a collaboration between Australia Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, and the University of Bonn, Germany. Walossek is responsible for interpretation/description and was involved in the collecting process.

Primary reference: D. Walossek, I. Hinz-Schallreuter, J. H. Shergold and K. J. Muller. 1993. Three-dimensional preservation of arthropod integument from the Middle Cambrian of Australia. Lethaia 26:7-15 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7900: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 06.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The taxonomic list does not include palaeoscolecidan worms and minute problematica which that are found in the formation, but were not collected. The arthropod fragments are not indentifyable due to fragmentation. However, the egg capsules do most likely have an arthropod origin.
Cambrogeorgina
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unclassified
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Arthropoda indet. Latreille 1829
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod