Bakers Swamp District, Wahringa Limestone (Ordovician to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.8° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 179.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Wahringa Limestone Member (Fairbridge Volcanics Formation), Gisbornian to Gisbornian (460.9 - 458.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: I. G. Percival, B. D. Webby, and J. W. Pickett. 2001. Ordovician (Bendigonian, Darriwilian to Gisbornian) faunas from the northern Molong Volcanic Belt of central New South Wales. Alcheringa 25:211-250 [A. Miller/A. Zaffos/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119706: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Zaffos on 01.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
? Malongullospongia sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
? Archaeoscyphia sp. Hinde 1889 demosponge
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechiella regularis Yabe and Sugiyama 1930 stromatoporoid sponge
Labechia banksi Webby 1979 stromatoporoid sponge
Hexactinellida
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Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge
Anthozoa
 Sarcinulida - Billingsariidae
Billingsaria spissa Percival et al. 2001 tabulate coral
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
? Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites cf. florentinensis Banks and Johnson 1957 snail
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellinidae indet. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
? Sowerbyites wahringaensis Percival et al. 2001
Lingulata
 Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
Multispinula sp. Rowell 1962