Australasian Fossils: A Students' Manual of PalaeontologyChapman, Frederick
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Australasian Fossils: A Students' Manual of Palaeontology
Chapman, Frederick
Paleontology -- Australia
In the Lower Cambrian Limestone of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, the
following trilobites occur:--a species doubtfully referred to _Olenellus_
(? _O. pritchardi_); _Ptychoparia howchini_ (Fig. 108 A); _P. australis_;
_Dolichometopus tatei_ (Fig. 108 B); and _Microdiscus subsagittatus_.
The Cambrian of the Northern Territory contains _Olenellus brownii_. In
Western Australia _Olenellus forresti_ is found in similar beds.
=Upper Cambrian Trilobites.--=
The Dolodrook Limestone (Upper Cambrian) of Gippsland, Victoria,
contains the remains of the primitive little trilobite _Agnostus_ (_A.
australiensis_, Fig. 108 C); _Crepicephalus_ (_C. etheridgei_); and
_Ptychoparia_ (_P. thielei_ (Fig. 108 D) and _P. minima_). The Upper
Cambrian sandstones of Caroline Creek, Tasmania, contain _Dikellocephalus_
(_D. tasmanicus_); a species of _Asaphus_ and _Ptychoparia_ (_P.
stephensi_). Beds of the same age in the Florentine Valley, Tasmania, have
yielded _Dikellocephalus_ (_D. florentinensis_, Fig. 108 E).
=Ordovician Trilobites.--=
Trilobites of Lower Ordovician age or even older, are found in the
Knowsley beds near Heathcote in Victoria. They are referred to two genera,
_Dinesus_ and _Notasaphus_. Both forms belong to the ancient family
of the Asaphidae. Associated with these trilobites are some doubtful
species of sea-weed, spicules of siliceous sponges, traces of threadlike
hydrozoa, some fragments of graptolites allied to _Bryograptus_, and
several brachiopods. At the Lyndhurst Gold-fields, near Mandurama, New
South Wales, trilobites related to the genus _Shumardia_ have been found
associated with brachiopods (lamp-shells), pteropods (sea-butterflies),
and graptolites (hydrozoa) of an Upper Ordovician facies.
The limestone beds at Laurie's Creek and other localities in Central
Australia contain remains of _Asaphus illarensis_, _A. howchini_ and _A.
lissopelta_; whilst in the limestone and quartzite of Middle Valley, Tempe
Downs, _A. thorntoni_ also occurs.
=Silurian Trilobites.--=
[Illustration: =Fig. 109--OLDER SILURIAN TRILOBITES.=
A--Ampyx parvulus, Forbes, var. jikaensis, Chapm. Silurian (Melb.)
Victoria
B--Cypaspis spryi, Gregory. Silurian (Melb.) Victoria
C--Homalonotus harrisoni, McCoy. Silurian (Melb.) Victoria
D--Phacops latigenalis, Eth. fil. and Mitch. Silurian. N.S. Wales
]
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