Also known as 599 mm E x 165 mm N LAKE AMADEUS
Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.5° S, 131.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 163.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sandstone Member (Stairway Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)
• poorly documented outcrop
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, white, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by A.T. Wells 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 79194: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cyrtodonta wattii Tate 1896 clam |