Also known as Gower Formation, Western Queensland - Wallosek 1993

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.0° S, 139.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 170.0° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ptychagnostus atavus trilobite zone, Gowers Formation, Floran (504.5 - 503.0 Ma)

• Was Menevian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Material collected in 1986 as part of a collaboration between the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, and the University of Bonn, Germany. Walossek is responsible for interpretation/description and was involved in the collecting process. The arthropod pieces are not yet identifyable due to fragmentation, but the egg capsulses are interpretted to be of an arthropod origin.

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 7901: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 06.06.2000

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