Quondong Fm, Lower unit, Bowan Park, New South Wales, Australia (Ordovician to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 149.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 13.3° N, 117.9° E (Wright 2013)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Quondong Limestone Formation, Eastonian to Eastonian (452.3 - 454.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Thin-bedded bioclastic and muddy limestone; lagoon

Primary reference: V. Semeniuk. 1972. The stratigraphy of the Bowan Park Group, New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 105:77-85 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2722: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 15.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum sp. Billings 1858 horn coral
originally entered as "Palaeophylum sp."
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Hillophyllum sp. Webby 1971 horn coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira sp. Whitfield 1886 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellina sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Catazyga sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847
Tetradium
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Tetradium sp. Dana 1846