Locality 16. Hy 8*. Southeast nose of Parana Hill anticline, 32 kilometers west-southwest of Tempe Downs (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 45 mm E x 250 mm N HENBURY map

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.5° S, 132.2° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 164.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sandstone Member (Stairway Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic sandstone

• sandstone and phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.G. Gatehouse in 1962

• CPC & QML 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 79127: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nucularcidae
Sthenodonta eastii Tate 1896 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta wattii Tate 1896 clam