L142. Paling Yard Creek, Bowan Park (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.3° S, 148.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 176.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Quondong Limestone Formation, Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Was Gisbonian - Eastonian, but top of Ea2 according to Percival et al. (2008).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous limestone

• Thin-bedded, skeletal limestone and thin-bedded marly limestone; lagoon

"limestone + limestone" changed to "limestone" by JA

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 166843: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis barbata Percival 1991
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Phaceloorthis decoris Percival 1991
 Orthida - Wangyuiidae
Bowanorthis fragilis Percival 1991
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Trigrammaria ampla Percival 1991
Molongcola variabilis Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Hesperomenidae
"Tylambonites speciosa" = Chaganella speciosa
"Tylambonites speciosa" = Chaganella speciosa Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Shlyginia rectangularis n. sp., "Wiradjuriella halis" = Mabella halis
Shlyginia rectangularis n. sp. Percival 2009
"Wiradjuriella halis" = Mabella halis Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
Sowerbyites isotes Percival 1991