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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge | |
? Malongullospongia sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
? Archaeoscyphia sp. Hinde 1889 demosponge | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Labechiella regularis Yabe and Sugiyama 1930 stromatoporoid sponge
Labechia banksi Webby 1979 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Billingsaria spissa Percival et al. 2001 tabulate coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Gastropoda | |
Maclurites cf. florentinensis Banks and Johnson 1957 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928 | |
Leptellinidae indet. Ulrich and Cooper 1936 | |
? Sowerbyites wahringaensis Percival et al. 2001 | |
Lingulata | |
Multispinula sp. Rowell 1962 |