Where: Australian Capital Territory, Australia (35.0° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.4° N, 175.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Walker Volcanics Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• Small area of mudstone (about 5 m thick and overlain by thinly interbedded siltstone and silty limestone containing the Halysitid Community) within the Walker Volcanics...Most likely Late Wenlockian, but with some degree of uncertainty. No conodonts or graptolites have been recovered from the formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Taxa listed in table 14.5, with abundances.

Primary reference: D. L. Strusz and M. J. Garratt. 1999. Australian communities. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 177-199 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25679: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)