Borenore trilobites (Silurian of Australia)
Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.3° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.5° N, 173.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Silurian (443.4 - 419.2 Ma)
• Lower Silurian
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous shale
• 20 foot thick bed of ferruginous shales
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. O. Fletcher. 1950. Trilobites from the Silurian of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 22(3):220-233 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188430: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 31.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• corals and brachiopods also present
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Trilobita | |
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Phacops macdonaldi Fletcher 1950 trilobite
Phacops crosslei Etheridge and Mitchell 1895 trilobite | |
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Encrinurus borenorensis Fletcher 1950 trilobite | |
"Dicranogmus bartonensis" = Trochurus bartonensis
"Dicranogmus bartonensis" = Trochurus bartonensis Fletcher 1950 trilobite | |