Lily Creek Section B54b: Iverian, Australia
collected by BMR field party 1957-1960

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Olenida - Eulomidae
Iveria iverensis Shergold 1980
Trilobita - Olenida - Idahoiidae
Maladioidella doylei Shergold 1980
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Atopasaphus cf. stenocanthus
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Haniwoides varia n. sp. Shergold 1980
Cermatops vieta Shergold 1980
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Lotosoides bathyora Shergold 1980
Prochuangia glabella Shergold 1980
Trilobita - Changshaniidae
Wentsuia iota Shergold 1980
Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus (Pseudagnostus) aulax Shergold 1980
Pseudagnostus (Pseudagnostus) parvus Shergold 1980
Agnostida - Agnostidae
Connagnostus aversus Shergold 1980
Tergomya - Tryblidiida - Tryblidiidae
Proplina sp. (Kobayashi 1933)
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Eocrinoidea
Eocrinoidea indet. Jaekel 1918
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 22.0° South, 140.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.9° North, 174.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Furongian
Stage: Jiangshanian 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 5
Key time interval: Iverian Trilobite zone:  Peichiashania secunda - Prochuangia glabella
Age range of interval: 494 - 489.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chatsworth
Local section:Lily Creek Local bed:52 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Should be Jiangshanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ooidal,peloidal lithified sandy grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Sandy pelletal grainstone with mudstone? laminae; Girvanella clasts, calcispheres, and minor disseminated pyrite; hand Specimen is oolitic and contains abraded brachiopods."
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: "rocks were deposited in high energy shallow subtidal, intertidal and possibly aeolian environments"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:BMR field party Collection dates:1957-1960
Metadata
Database number:228185
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2022-11-22 11:56:46 Last modified:2023-01-21 18:01:02
Access level:the public Released:2022-11-22 11:56:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

83129. J. H. Shergold. 1980. Late Cambrian trilobites from the Chatsworth Limestone, western Queensland. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 186:1-108 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]