Silicified early devonian trilobites from Mudgee, New South Wales

Authors

Brian D. E Chatterton, University of Alberta
Anthony J. Wright, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

89079

Publication Details

Chatterton, B. D. E. & Wright, A. J. (1986). Silicified early devonian trilobites from Mudgee, New South Wales. Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology, 10 (3-4), 279-296.

Abstract

A silicified trilobite fauna is described from an un-named Early Devonian (late Zlichovian-early Dalejan) limestone at Mudgee, N.S.W. The fauna includes eleven taxa as follows: Proetus sp., Cornuproetus ? sp., Astycoryphe sp., Cyphaspis sp., Harpidae gen. et sp. indet., Phacops (Phacops) sp., Crotalocephalus struszi sp.nov., Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) campbelli sp.nov., Terranovia? sp.nov., Dudleyaspis sp. cf. D. campbelli (Chatterton 1971) and Radiaspis bispinosa? (Chatterton 1971). Terranovia has not been previously described from Australia.