Also known as Reef 2448. Cliefden Caves Tetradium cribriforme wave baffle community

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, Kalimna Limestone Member (Fossil Hill Limestone Formation), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Originally called the Cliefden Caves Limestone Group, sometimes with the formation as Kalimna Limestone Formation; upper part of the Kalimna Limestone Member

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, calcareous 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 I. G. Percival. 1983. Ordovician Trimerrillacean brachiopod shell beds. Lethaia 16(3):215-232 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2647: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.07.1999

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