Westfield Quarry. 150 m. above base of Arndell Sandstone (Silurian of Australia)

Also known as Locality 18 of Corbett & Banks 1974

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.6° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.5° N, 177.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parakidograptus acuminatus graptolite zone, Arndell Sandstone Formation (Gordon Group), Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. J. Holloway, M. R. Banks, and D. M. Banks. 2022. Late Ordovician and early Silurian trilobites from Tasmania. Bulletin of Geosciences 97(4):397-444 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229053: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.02.2023

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Proetida - Scharyiidae
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
? Cromus sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite