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
Demospongiae | |
Belubulaia packhami, Nibiconia adnata n. gen. n. sp.
Belubulaia packhami Webby and Rigby 1985 demosponge
Nibiconia adnata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Palmatohindia multipora Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge | |
Perissocoelia habra Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Aulocopium aurantium Oswald 1847 demosponge | |
Astylostroma micra Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Gleesonia porosa Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Yarrowigahia brassicata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Vandonia clathrata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Lewinia cavernosa Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
Tiddalickia quadrata n. gen. n. sp.
Tiddalickia quadrata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 glass sponge | |
Kometia cruciformis Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge
Silicunculus bengtsoni Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge | |
Wongaspongia minor n. gen. n. sp., Wongaspongia major n. sp.
Wongaspongia minor n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 glass sponge
Wongaspongia major n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 glass sponge | |
Pseudolancicula exigua Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge | |
Anomaloides reticulatus Ulrich 1878 |