Fossil Hill Fm, Wyoming Limest Mbr, Cliefden Caves, New South Wales, Australia (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: Wyoming Limestone Member (Fossil Hill Limestone Formation), Gisbornian to Gisbornian (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone and carbonate

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 2706: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 15.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
? Nyctopora sp. Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral
originally entered as "Nyctopora? sp."
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847
Craniata
 Trimerellida - Trimerellidae
Eodinobolus sp. Rowell 1963
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797