Mount Spann, Australaspis magnus faunule, NE Argentina Range (Cambrian of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (82.0° S, 41.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° S, 150.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mount Spann Formation, Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Primary reference: A. R. Palmer and C. G. Gatehouse. 1972. Early and Middle Cambrian Trilobites from Antarctica. Contributions to the geology of Antarctica [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154030: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 23.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Jakutidae
Bathyuriscellus modestus Palmer and Gatehouse 1972 trilobite
Bathyuriscellus australis Palmer and Gatehouse 1972 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Saukiandidae
Australaspis magnus Palmer and Gatehouse 1972 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Redlichia sp. Cossmann 1902 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Yunnanocephalidae
Pensacola isolata Palmer and Gatehouse 1972 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Chorbusulina wilkesi Palmer and Gatehouse 1972 trilobite
Chorbusulina subdita Palmer and Gatehouse 1972 trilobite
? Glabrella pitans Palmer and Gatehouse 1972 trilobite