Monastery Creek Phosphorite Fm., upper-most unit, W. Queensland - Walossek 1993 (Cambrian to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.0° S, 139.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.3° N, 168.7° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monastery Creek Phosphorite Formation, Templetonian to Templetonian (508.0 - 503.0 Ma)

• The deposit shows site sorting and abrasion.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified phosphorite

• bedded phosphorite.

Collection methods: The specimens show post-mortem phosphatization of soft material and phosphatized plates. 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.

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 7903: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 06.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

• The collection does not include palaescolecidan worms and minute problematica which are present in the bed, but were not collected. The arthropod pieces are not identifyable due to fragmentation, however the larva and egg capsules are interpretted to have an arthropod origin.
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unclassified
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Arthropoda indet.
Arthropoda indet. Latreille 1829
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Cambrogeorgina
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Cambrogeorgina sp.