Also known as "top fauna", Singing Creek Formation, Denison Range, Tasmania - Jago 1987

Where: Tasmania, Australia (43.0° S, 147.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° S, 147.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Proceratopyge cryptica + Stigmatoa diloma trilobite zone, Singing Creek Formation, Maentwrogian (497.0 - 496.8 Ma)

• Stratigraphically equivalent fossils are found elsewhere in the Adamsfield Trough.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; conglomeratic, cherty/siliceous wackestone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

• The specimens were collected in 1967 and 1968 by K. D. Corbett and are presently housed in the Geology Department, University of Tasmania (UT). The top faunal horizon has the richest amount of fossils of the three stratigraphic faunal groupings. All of the specimens have undergone tectonic distortion.

Primary reference: J. B. Jago. 1987. Idamean (Late Cambrian) trilobites from the Denison Range, south-west Tasmania. Palaeontology 30(2):207-231 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8087: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 19.06.2000

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