Fossil Hill Limestone, Taplow Mbr, Cliefden Caves, New South Wales, Australia (Ordovician to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 176.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taplow Member (Fossil Hill Limestone Formation), Gisbornian to Gisbornian (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Thin-bedded to massive-bedded limestone

Primary reference: B. D. Webby. 1971. Ordovician genus Hillophylum and the early history of rugose corals with acanthine septa. Lethaia 4(2):153-168 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2721: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 15.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Tetradium
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Tetradium sp.
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis sp.
Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellina sp.
Leptellina sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
Sowerbyites sp.
Sowerbyites sp. Teichert 1937
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Pseudobasilicus sp.
Pseudobasilicus sp. Reed 1930 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Hillophyllum sp.
Hillophyllum sp. Webby 1971 horn coral