Borenore trilobites (Silurian to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.3° S, 149.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 1.3° N, 119.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Boree Creek Formation, Telychian to Telychian (438.6 - 430.6 Ma)

• Lower Silurian; Edgecombe & Ramsköld (1992) note that this is Late Llandovery; the Boree Creek is the only Telchian-Homerian rock in this area.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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Taxonomic list

• corals and brachiopods also present
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Artiopoda
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Dicranogmus bartonensis" = Trochurus bartonensis
"Dicranogmus bartonensis" = Trochurus bartonensis Fletcher 1950 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
"Encrinurus borenorensis" = Pacificurus borenorensis
"Encrinurus borenorensis" = Pacificurus borenorensis Fletcher 1950 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops crosslei" = Ananaspis crossleii, "Phacops macdonaldi" = Ananaspis macdonaldi
"Phacops crosslei" = Ananaspis crossleii Etheridge and Mitchell 1895 trilobite
"Phacops macdonaldi" = Ananaspis macdonaldi Fletcher 1950 trilobite