Licking Hole Creek (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as Belubula Fm, Horizons E and above, Licking Hole Creek, New South Wales, Australi

Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.0° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.5° N, 177.4° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taoqupognathus blandus conodont zone, Belubula Formation, Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Cliefden Caves Limestone Group. E-horizon and above

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Massive and thin-bedded limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. G. Percival. 1976. The geology of the Licking Hole Creek area, near Walli, central western New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 109(1-2):7-23 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2700: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 15.07.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Tetradium
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Tetradium sp. Dana 1846
Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
originally entered as "Clathyrodictyon sp."
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon sp. Nestor 1964 stromatoporoid sponge
 Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechiella sp. Yabe and Sugiyama 1930 stromatoporoid sponge
Labechia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stromatoporoid sponge
 Labechiida - Rosenellidae
Pseudostylodictyon sp. Ozaki 1938 stromatoporoid sponge
Cystostroma sp. Galloway and St Jean 1957 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Eofletcheria sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Hillophyllum sp. Webby 1971 horn coral
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospiridae indet. Wenz 1938 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail
Craniata
 Trimerellida - Trimerellidae
Eodinobolus sp. Rowell 1963
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Doleroides sp. Cooper 1930
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Ptychopleurella sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Eridorthis sp. Foerste 1909
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
"Hallina sp." = Anazyga
"Hallina sp." = Anazyga Davidson 1882
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Hesperomenidae
Anoptambonites sp. Williams 1962