Late Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Gola Beds, western Queensland

This Bulletin describes the trilobite fauna of the Gala Beds, an informally designated stratigraphical unit of late Upper Cambrian age outcropping along the Momedah anticline in the Boulia area, western Queensland. On the basis of their triolobites the Gola Beds are provisionally considered correlatives Franconian to early Trempealeauan interval of North America, and of the Fengshanian of north China, Korea, and Manchuria. Of the 19 genera described below, 10 are new; and of the 25 species, 21 are described for the first time and four are left under open nomenclature owing to lack of material. New taxa are: Pseudagnostus papilio sp. nov., P. clavus sp. nov., Connagnostus junior sp. nov., Distagnostus ergodes gen. et sp. nov., Rudagnostus avius sp. nov., Geragnostus (Micragnostus) acrolebes sp. nov., Richardsonella laciniosa sp. nov., R.(?) kainelliformis sp. nov., Sigmakainel/a translira gen. et sp. nov., S. longilira sp. nov., Kaolishania australis sp. nov., Mansuyites [utilijormis gen. et sp. nov., Palacorona bacculata gen. et sp. nov., Lophosaukia torquata gen. et sp. nov., Eoshumardia cylindrica sp. nov., Del/ea(?) laevis sp. nov., Lorrettina macrops gen. et sp. nov., Crucicephalus ocel/atus gen. et sp. nov., Duplora clara gen. et sp. nov., Golasaphus momedahensis gen. et sp. nov., and Atopasaphus petasatus gen. et sp. Novo Although the fauna is largely new, about one-third of it has affinity with species previously described from North America, notably the pseudagnostinids, richardsonelIinids, and the ptychoparioids Del/ea(?) and Lorrettina. A further third has affinity with east Asian species, in this case the Kaolishaniidae, Saukiidae, and Shumardiidae. Only some agnostids show much affinity with trilobites from South America, Europe, and the USSR.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
1971-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/140

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics

 Canberra
Author

Shergold, J.H.

 1
Name

Bulletin

Issue identification

112

Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Corp
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Keywords

  • GA Publication

  • Bulletin

Theme

  • palaeontology

Keywords

  • AU-QLD

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Download the Bulletin (pdf)

Download the Bulletin (pdf)

Distribution format

  • pdf

Resource lineage

Statement

Unknown

Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

GA Publication

Description

Source data not available.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/a05f7892-7fc8-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

Legacy AGSO BMR Bulletins

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/140

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a05f7892-7fc8-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T06:12:50
Date info (Creation)
1996-10-29T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

palaeontology

Provided by

Access to the portal

Associated resources

Not available