Also known as The Gap
Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.7° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 165.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tetragraptus approximatus graptolite zone, Mt. Field Siltstone Member (Florentine Valley Formation), Lancefieldian (484.3 - 474.9 Ma)
• La3
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: J. R. Laurie. 1980. Early Ordovician orthide brachiopods from southern Tasmania. Alcheringa 4(1):11-23 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186101: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.06.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Tritoechia lewisi Brown 1948 | |
Rhynchonellata | |