L133. Hillside East of Large Flat, Fossil Hill, near Cliefden Caves (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.6° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 177.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Dunhill Bluff Member (Fossil Hill Limestone Formation), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Was Gisbonian - Harnagian; revised based on Percival et al. (2008).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Thin-bedded bioclastic limestone with shaly partings

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: I. Percival. 1991. Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 11:107-177 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166840: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Was a composite list. PJW began breaking it up, using the most diverse list to replace the initial one.
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema oepiki Percival 1991
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
"Wiradjuriella halis" = Mabella halis
"Wiradjuriella halis" = Mabella halis Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
Sowerbyites isotes Percival 1991