Locality 06. NT 335. 3.2 kilometers east of Native Pine Gap, southwest of Alice Springs (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.8° S, 133.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° N, 170.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower beds Member (Pacoota Formation), Bendigonian (474.9 - 473.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, brown, gray, red sandstone

• Decalcified lightly silicified fine-grained sandstone, pinkish-grey with purple-brown staining

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D.P. Woolley & P.J. Jones in 1962

• CPC specimens

Primary reference: J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson. 1977. Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin 174:1-64 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79011: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Colpomyida - Colpomyidae
Xestoconcha kraciukae, Colpantyx woolleyi
Xestoconcha kraciukae Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
Colpantyx woolleyi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam