Also known as Reef 2482
Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.6° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 174.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Malongulli Formation, Bolindian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• block in the upper part of the formation (5 m below the contact with the overlying Angullong Tuff), Malongulli Formation is Late Eastonian-Early Bolindian (Katian-lowest Hirnantian)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified limestone and lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and B. D. Webby. 1988. Late Ordovician sponges from the Malongulli Formation of central New South Wales, Australia. Palaeontographica Americana 56:1-147 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119489: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Silicunculus bengtsoni Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge
Kometia cruciformis Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge | |
Pseudolancicula exigua Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge | |
Wongaspongia major n. sp., Wongaspongia minor n. gen. n. sp.
Wongaspongia major n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 glass sponge
Wongaspongia minor n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 glass sponge | |
Tiddalickia quadrata n. gen. n. sp.
Tiddalickia quadrata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge
Palmatohindia multipora Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Nibiconia adnata n. gen. n. sp., Belubulaia packhami
Nibiconia adnata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Belubulaia packhami Webby and Rigby 1985 demosponge | |
Lewinia cavernosa Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Perissocoelia habra Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Aulocopium aurantium Oswald 1847 demosponge | |
Vandonia clathrata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Yarrowigahia brassicata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Gleesonia porosa Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Astylostroma micra Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Anomaloides reticulatus | |
Anomaloides reticulatus Ulrich 1878 |