Also known as Reef 2482
Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.6° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 175.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Malongulli Formation, Eastonian to Eastonian (456.1 - 443.7 Ma)
• block in the middle 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 2697: 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
Demospongiae | |
Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879 demosponge | |
Perissocoelia habra Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge
Hudsonospongia cf. cyclostoma Raymond and Okulitch 1940 demosponge | |
Astylostroma micra n. gen. n. sp.
Astylostroma micra n. gen. n. sp. Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Patellispongia australis Rigby and Webby 1988 demosponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
Chelispongia prima Webby and Trotter 1993 glass sponge |