Peak Plain Road (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.4° S, 145.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° S, 177.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Correlative of the Bell Shale of the Eldon Group.

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, yellow siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A. Anderson and C. Anderson

Primary reference: G. D. Edgecombe. 2007. Acaste (Trilobita: Phacopina) from the Early Devonian of Tasmania. Alcheringa 31:59-66 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 116428: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 07.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Kettneraspis sp.
Kettneraspis sp. Prantl and Pribyl 1949 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Acaste andersoni
Acaste andersoni Edgecombe 2007 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Trimerus sp.
Trimerus sp. Green 1832 trilobite