Fossil Hill Fm, Peritidal Gleesons Limest Mbr, Cliefden Caves, New South Wales, (Ordovician to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.0° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.0° N, 178.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gleesons Limestone Member (Fossil Hill Limestone Formation), Gisbornian to Gisbornian (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, calcareous siltstone and shale

Primary reference: B. D. Webby. 1992. Ordovician island biotas: New South Wales record and global implications. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 125:51-77 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2704: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 15.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerina sp. Chugaeva 1956 trilobite