Site A. 7 km west of Mt. Wright (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.2° S, 142.3° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 159.6° W)

When: Acimetopus bilobatus trilobite zone, Cymbric Vale Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; tuffaceous siltstone

• 6 m of a grey, hard, and apparently tuffaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. A. Öpik. 1975. Cymbric Vale fauna of New South Wales and Early Cambrian biostratigraphy. Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australia 159:1-78 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225136: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.04.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Eocrinoidea
  -
Eocrinoidea sp. Jaekel 1918
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes "sp. indet." d'Eichwald 1840
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Tergomya
 Scenelloidea - Scenellidae
Scenella reticulata Billings 1872
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
"Scenella aff. antiqua" = Marocella antiqua, Helcionella "indet."
"Scenella aff. antiqua" = Marocella antiqua Kiær 1916
Helcionella "indet." Grabau and Shimer 1909
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dinesidae
 Redlichiida - Estaingiidae
"Strenax (Sematiscus) fletcheri" = Estaingia fletcheri, "Strenax cerastes" = Estaingia cerastes, Estaingia bilobata
"Strenax (Sematiscus) fletcheri" = Estaingia fletcheri Öpik 1975 trilobite
"Strenax cerastes" = Estaingia cerastes Öpik 1975 trilobite
Estaingia bilobata Pocock 1964 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Redlichia "sp. indet." Cossmann 1902 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
"Discomesites lunatulus" = Pagetides, "Discomesites fragum" = Pagetides fragum
"Discomesites lunatulus" = Pagetides
"Discomesites fragum" = Pagetides fragum Öpik 1975
 Agnostida - Weymouthiidae