Also known as Reef 2482
Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.6° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 177.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Malongulli Formation, Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)
• block in the lower part of the formation, Malongulli Formation is Late Eastonian-Early Bolindian (Katian-lowest Hirnantian)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified limestone and lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby and B. D. Webby. 1988. Late Ordovician sponges from the Malongulli Formation of central New South Wales, Australia. Palaeontographica Americana 56:1-147 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2696: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.07.1999, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Silicunculus bengtsoni Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge
Chelispongia prima Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge | |
Walliospongia gracilis n. gen. n. sp.
Walliospongia gracilis n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 glass sponge | |
Pseudolancicula exigua n. gen. n. sp.
Pseudolancicula exigua n. gen. n. sp. Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Malongullospongia delicatula n. gen. n. sp., Gleesonia porosa n. gen. n. sp.
Malongullospongia delicatula n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Gleesonia porosa n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Aulocopium aurantium Oswald 1847 demosponge
Perissocoelia habra n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Hudsonospongia cf. cyclostoma Raymond and Okulitch 1940 demosponge | |
Astylostroma micra Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Warrigalia elliptica n. gen. n. sp.
Warrigalia elliptica n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Anomaloides reticulatus | |
Anomaloides reticulatus Ulrich 1878 |