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A REMARKABLE collection of about 400 specimens of phyllocarid crustaceans was made in 1963 by H. A. Toombs of the British Museum (Natural History), and K. Buller and E. Car of the Western Australian Museum. The material was collected at two localities from calcareous siltstone concretions in the Gogo Formation which yields a lower Manticoceras Zone (Timanites angustus Subzone) goniatite fauna of Frasnian 1α age, Upper Devonian1–3. The localities are: 1, Virgin Bore area, Gogo Station, 125° 54′ E., 18° 35′ S., and 2, Bugle Gap, 126° 02′ 15″ E., 18° 41′ S., both in the Fitzroy Basin, Kimberley Division of Western Australia. Preliminary identifications of the phyllocarids, together with the relative frequency of occurrence, are as follows:
Locality 1: Montecaris lehmanni Jux, abundant; Montecaris sp. nov. ?, a very rare, heavily tuberculate form; Concavicaris sp. nov. 1 aff. C. elytroides (Meek), rare; Schugurocaris sp., rare.
Locality 2: Concavicaris spp. nov. 1 and 2, Schugurocaris sp.
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ROLFE, W. Phyllocarid Crustacean Fauna of European Aspect from the Devonian of Western Australia. Nature 209, 192 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209192a0
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