Also known as The Gap
Where: Tasmania, Australia (18.6° S, 125.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.7° N, 161.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gap Creek Formation, Bendigonian (474.9 - 473.1 Ma)
• Be4
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: J. R. Laurie. 1997. Early Ordovician fauna of the Gap Creek Formation, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 16(5):701-716 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210260: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.05.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Artiopoda | |
| Trilobita | |
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Canningella hardmani Legg 1976 trilobite
Encrinurella ? reedi trilobite | |
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Opipeuter angularis Young 1973 trilobite | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Teiichispira cornucopiae Hill et al. 1969 snail | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Spanodonta hoskingiae Prendergast 1935 | |