D18. Road crossing Boomerang Creek (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Queenslandd, Australia (21.3° S, 140.1° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° N, 171.8° W)

When: Lejopyge laevigata trilobite zone, Devoncourt Limestone Formation, Boomerangian (500.5 - 499.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. A. Öpik. 1961. The Geology and palaeontology of the Headwaters of the Burke River, Queensland. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics 53:1-248 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225252: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.04.2022

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
  -
Acroteta "sp. 1", Acroteta "sp. 2"
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
Acrothele "sp. A"
Acrothele "sp. A" Linnarsson 1876
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Micromitra "sp. B"
Ostracoda
  -
Aristaluta gutta n. gen. n. sp.
Aristaluta gutta n. gen. n. sp. ostracod
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
? Crepicephalus "sp. H"
? Crepicephalus "sp. H" Owen 1852 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Papyriaspididae
"Tosotychia sors n. gen. n. sp." = Pianaspis sors
"Tosotychia sors n. gen. n. sp." = Pianaspis sors Öpik 1961 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Amphoton arta n. sp.
Amphoton arta n. sp. trilobite
 Redlichiida - Centropleuridae
Centropleura phoenix n. sp.
Centropleura phoenix n. sp. trilobite
 Redlichiida - Agraulidae
Proampyx agra n. sp.
Proampyx agra n. sp. trilobite
  - Mapaniidae
Mapania dicella n. sp., Mapania synophrys n. sp.
Mapania dicella n. sp. trilobite
Mapania synophrys n. sp. trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida -
Delagnostus dilemma n. gen. n. sp., Grandagnostus velaevis n. sp.
Delagnostus dilemma n. gen. n. sp.
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Diplagnostus planicaudavestgothieus
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus hippalus n. sp., Hypagnostus "sp. F"
Hypagnostus "sp. F" Jaeckel 1909
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Pseudophalacroma "sp. K", Pseudophalacroma dubium, "Lejopyge laevigata" = Lejopyge laevigatus, Ptychagnostus (Goniagnostus) "sp. P aff. nathorsti", Ptychagnostus "sp. O", "Ptychagnostus aculeatus" = Acidusus aculeatus
Pseudophalacroma "sp. K" Pokrovskaya 1958
Pseudophalacroma dubium Whitehouse 1936
"Lejopyge laevigata" = Lejopyge laevigatus Dalman 1828
Ptychagnostus "sp. O" Jaekel 1909
"Ptychagnostus aculeatus" = Acidusus aculeatus Angelin 1851