Where: Queensland, Australia (19.3° S, 144.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 13.0° N, 108.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Quinton Formation (Graveyard Creek Group), Telychian (438.6 - 432.9 Ma)
• Age call based on ref. 10816 (which is consistent with conodonts). This ref. refers to this as Quinton Fm., whereas Lane and Thomas refer to it as Graveyard Creek. Collection is 600m above base.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Primary reference: P. D. Lane and A. T. Thomas. 1978. Silurian trilobites from NE Queensland and the classification of effaced trilobites. Geological Magazine 115(5):351-358 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40016: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 14.06.2004
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Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
? Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite | |
Sphaerexochus sp. Beyrich 1845 trilobite | |
Calymenidae indet. Milne-Edwards 1840 trilobite | |
"Rhax pollinctrix n. gen. n. sp." = Rhaxeros
"Rhax pollinctrix n. gen. n. sp." = Rhaxeros trilobite | |
? Warburgellinae indet. Owens 1973 trilobite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Cyclostomata | |
Conodonta indet. Pander 1856 conodont | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 |