Monastery Creek Phosphorite Fm, Basal Unit, W. Queensland - Walossek et al 1993 (Cambrian to of Australia)

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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Triplagnostus gibbus zone, Monastery Creek Phosphorite Formation, Templetonian to Templetonian (508.0 - 504.5 Ma)

• Unit shows size sorting and abrasion.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified phosphorite

• bedded phosphorite

Collection methods: The specimens take the form of pst-mortem phosphatization of soft material and phosphatized plates. The material was 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 7904: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 06.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

• The collection does not include palaeoscolecidan worms or minute problematica which were identified, but not collected. Egg capsules are interpretted as having an arthropod source along with other body fragments. However, classification of this material can not be made past the phylum.
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Cambrogeorgina
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Cambrogeorgina sp.
unclassified
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Arthropoda indet.
Arthropoda indet. Latreille 1829
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod