Cashions Creek, Florentine Valley, near Maydena (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as Was: Cashions Creek Fm, Florentine Synclinorium, Tasmania, Australia

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.6° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 9.4° N, 174.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cashions Creek Formation, Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Gordon Subgroup

•Da3-Da4

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Oncolitic dolomitic limestone, thick-bedded, fine calcarenite with abundant Girvanella.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. D. Corbett and M. R. Banks. 1974. Ordovician stratigraphy of the Florentine Synclinorium, southwest Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 107:207-238 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2679: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.07.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium sp.
Stromatocerium sp. Hall 1847 stromatoporoid sponge
originally entered as "Stromatocerium" "
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites florentinensis n. sp.
Maclurites florentinensis n. sp. Banks and Johnson 1957 snail
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomenidae indet.
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenidae indet.
Illaenidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella problematica
Girvanella problematica Nicholson and Etheridge 1878