QML128. 6 km SSW of Thorntonia Homestead: Floran, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia - Tuarangiida - Pseudomyonidae
? Myona queenslandica n. sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976
recombined as Pseudomyona queenslandica
Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
Protowenella flemingi n. gen., n. sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976
Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Stenothecidae
Mellopegma georginensis n. gen., n. sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976
Helcionelloida - Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella deltoides n. sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976
Pelagiella corinthiana n. sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland County:Thorntonia
Coordinates: 19.6° South, 138.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.7° North, 172.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Miaolingian
Stage:Drumian 10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 4
Key time interval:Floran Trilobite zone: Ptychagnostus atavus
Age range of interval:504.50000 - 503.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gowers
Local section:QM 128 Local bed:<10 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Ptychagnostus atavus zone (post-Templetonian); was Currant Bush formation, but lower part is now Gowers Formation (Southgate 1986)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Jell (1975 Palaeontographica A) has rest of the fauna.
Metadata
Also known as:L128
Database number:56809
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-25 21:08:38 Last modified:2010-01-18 20:05:05
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-25 21:08:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13233. B. Runnegar and P.A. Jell. 1976. Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution. Alcheringa 1(1/2):109-138 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

31613 P. N. Southgate. 1986. The Gowers Formation and Bronco Stromatolith Bed, two new stratigraphic units in the Undilla portion of the Georgina Basin. Queensland Government Mining Journal (10)407-411 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
31600 M. J. Vendrasco, S. M. Porter, A. Kouchinsky, G. Li, and C. Z. Fernandez. 2010. New data on molluscs and their shell microstructures from the Middle Cambrian Gowers Formation, Australia. Palaeontology 53(1):97-135 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]