Daylesford Limestone Fm., Davys Plains Mbr, Bowan Park area, New South wales, Au (Ordovician to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 178.1° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Davys Plains Member (Daylesford Limestone Formation), Gisbornian to Gisbornian (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone and marl

• Massive skeletal bioclastic limestone and fossiliferous marl; lagoon

Primary reference: I. Percival. 1991. Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 11:107-177 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2750: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Several systematic articles (articulates and corals)
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Protozygidae
Protozyga sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Bajgoliidae
Bajgolia sp. Dzyubo 1962 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporellidae
Plasmoporella sp. Kiaer 1899 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral