Also known as Cliefden Caves Lingulide and Rhynchotrema Communities, New South Wales, Australi

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° N, 176.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taoqupognathus philipi conodont zone, Gleesons Limestone Member (Fossil Hill Limestone Formation), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Originally called the Cliefden Caves Limestone Group, sometimes with the formation as Gleesons Limestone Formation. Conodont zone from Zhen, Webby & Barnes (1999)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, calcareous siltstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Webby and Percival, 1983 is primarily a paleoecologic study, but Webby and Packham, 1982 is primarily biostratigraphic

Primary reference: B. D. Webby and G. H. Packham. 1982. Stratigraphy and regional setting of the Cliefden Caves Limestone Group (L.Ordovician), Central-Western New South Wales. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 29(3):297-317 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2645: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 13.07.1999

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