Also known as Lowest unit of the Murrawong Creek

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.3° S, 151.1° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 155.9° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acidusus atavus - Ptychagnostus punctuosus trilobite zone, Murrawong Creek Formation, Floran to Floran (504.5 - 500.5 Ma)

• Conformably overlain by 900m of argillites, cherts, tuffs, sandstones, and five conglomerates of the Pipeclay Creek Formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, shelly/skeletal conglomerate

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: chemical,

• The specimens were deposited by an eroding carbonate platform that was moved by gravity down a submarine fan.

Primary reference: G. A. Brock. 1998. Middle Cambrian articulate brachiopods from the southern New England fold Belt, northeastern N.S.W., Australia. Journal of Paleontology 72(4):604-619 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9394: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 24.10.2000, edited by Pete Wagner and Wolfgang Kiessling

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