Locality 8. NT 187. Ross River bank, 3.2 kilometers south of Loves Creek Homestead (now Ross RIver Resort): Payntonian, Australia
collected by J. Gilbert-Tomlinson & C.E. Prichard 1956

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia - Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Pleuropegma plicatum n. gen., n. sp. Pojeta et al. 1977
Rostroconchia - Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
Oepikila cambrica (Runnegar and Pojeta 1974)
Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Homagnostus" informal sp. nov. Howell 1935
Trilobita - Asaphida - Rhyssometopidae
? Plectrifer informal sp. nov. Opik 1967
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Liostracinidae
Liostracina cf. krausei Monke 1903
Trilobita - Monkaspididae
Metopotropis informal sp. nov. Opik 1967
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Northern Territory County:Alice Springs
Coordinates: 23.6° South, 134.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.7° North, 178.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Furongian
Stage: Stage 10 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 5
Key time interval: Payntonian
Age range of interval: 489.5 - 486.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Goyder
Local section:Creek bed Local bed:4.6 m
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:NT 187 Regional bed:1 m
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: near Girvanella band
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ooidal,gray lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: Hard, grey, with dark spots and "cystid" fragments, almost aphanitic. Rostroconchs in oolitc 1st with aphanitic layers.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. Gilbert-Tomlinson & C.E. Prichard Collection dates:1956
Collection method comments: CPC specimens
Metadata
Database number:77426
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-01-11 13:55:42 Last modified:2018-06-26 12:32:06
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-11 13:55:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11595. J. Pojeta, J. Gilbert-Tomlinson, and J.H. Shergold. 1977. Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 171:1-54 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]