Locality 83. E 25. 2 kilometers east of Mount Charlotte (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.9° S, 134.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.1° N, 165.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• above red-beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Decalcified grey/yellow fine-grained sandstone. (Thinly bedded, fine to medium clean sandstone; minor interbedded sandy limestone, coarse sandstone, medium silty sandstone, phophorite.)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D.J. Taylor in 1959

• 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 79311: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Pteronychia haupti n. sp.
Pteronychia haupti n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam