L052. on the Yarrabandai Road 8 km northwest of Forbes (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as L52

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.3° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 173.9° E)

When: Metabolograptus persculptus graptolite zone, Lower Member (Cotton Formation), Bolindian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• Latest Ordovician; Climacograptus normalis present.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; cherty/siliceous siltstone

• The Cotton Beds were deposited in calm-water conditions (Sherwin, 1973, p. 63), possibly in a poorly aerated reducing environment. However no definitive evidence of depth of accumulation is observable.
• cherty siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: I. G. Percival. 1978. Inarticulate brachiopods from the Late Ordovician of New South Wales and their paleoecological significance. Alcheringa 2(1-2):117-141 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166909: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Paterulidae
Paterula giganta n. sp.
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Normalograptidae
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis Lapworth 1877 graptolite
Climacograptus scalaris normalis