Locality 41. 305/3-74. Black Mountain Section of Jones, Shergold & Druce 1971 (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as 324 mm E X 204 mm N at base to 316 mm E X 212 mm N

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.5° S, 140.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 179.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unbunmaroo Member (Ninmaroo Formation), Datsonian (488.3 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Dark grey micrite with surface silicification and patches of calcilutitite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by J.H. Shergold & J. Pojeta in 1974

• CPC specimens

Primary reference: J. Pojeta, J. Gilbert-Tomlinson, and J.H. Shergold. 1977. Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 171:1-54 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77481: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Eopteria struszi
Eopteria struszi Pojeta et al. 1977
 Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
"Bransonia chapronierei n. sp." = Pojetaconcha chapronierei
"Bransonia chapronierei n. sp." = Pojetaconcha chapronierei Pojeta et al. 1977
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
Apoptopegma dickinsi n. gen. n. sp.
Apoptopegma dickinsi n. gen. n. sp. Pojeta et al. 1977