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Late Middle Cambrian fossils from Beaconsfield, Tasmania
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Jago, JB 1980
, 'Late Middle Cambrian fossils from Beaconsfield, Tasmania'
, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol. 114
, pp. 219-223
, doi: https://doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.114.219.
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Abstract
The only known Cambrian fauna of the Beaconsfield Trough has a late Middle Cambrian (PtychQgnostus nathorsti or Lejopyge laevigata Zone) age; it occurs 4.5 km south-west of Beaconsfield, northern Tasmania. The poorly preserved fauna includes an orthid brachiopod, plus the trilobites Nepea sp., cf. Erediaspis sp., a probable
member of the Damesellidae, a possible solenopleurid, agnostoids and some fragmentary material. The fauna occurs about 140m below the contact with the overlying Tremadocian or Arenigian Cabbage Tree Formation, which suggests that most, if not all, of the Late Cambrian is not represented in the Beaconsfield area.
Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | Jago, JB |
Keywords: | Royal Society of Tasmania, RST, Van Diemens Land, natural history, science, ecology, taxonomy, botany, zoology, geology, geography, papers & proceedings, Australia, UTAS Library |
Journal or Publication Title: | Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania |
ISSN: | 0080-4703 |
DOI / ID Number: | https://doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.114.219 |
Collections: | Royal Society Collection > Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania |
Additional Information: | Copyright Royal Society of Tasmania |
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