L138. Quondong, Bowan Park (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as Quondong Limestone Fm., Bowan Park area, New South wales, Australia

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.9° S, 148.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 176.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Quondong Limestone Formation, Eastonian (456.1 - 449.5 Ma)

• Was Gisbonian - Eastonian, but top of Ea2 according to Percival et al. (2008).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous limestone

• Thin-bedded, skeletal limestone and thin-bedded marly limestone; lagoon

"limestone + limestone" changed to "limestone" by JA

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 2751: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.07.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Several systematic articles (articulates, nautiloids, stromatoporoids, trilobites, and corals). Assigned to locality L138 because that is the most diverse (PJW). Non-brachiopods should be modified.
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Rosenellidae
Pseudostylodictyon sp. Ozaki 1938 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon sp. Nestor 1964 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Hillophyllum sp. Webby 1971 horn coral
 Auloporida - Bajgoliidae
Bajgolia sp. Dzyubo 1962 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Coccoseris sp. Eichwald 1855 tabulate coral
Acidolites sp. Lang et al. 1940 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Palaeoporitidae
Palaeoporites sp. Kiaer 1899 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
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Hesperomenidae
"Tylambonites speciosa" = Chaganella speciosa
"Tylambonites speciosa" = Chaganella speciosa Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
"Wiradjuriella halis" = Mabella halis, Shlyginia rectangularis
"Wiradjuriella halis" = Mabella halis Percival 1991
Shlyginia rectangularis Percival 2009
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania skolia Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
Sowerbyites isotes Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Quondongia alitis n. gen. n. sp. Percival 1991
originally entered as "Quondongia sp."
Molongcola variabilis Percival 1991
Trigrammaria ampla Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Paromalomena zheni n. sp. Percival 2009
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema oepiki Percival 1991
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis hadra Percival 1991
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Ptychopleurella decretoria n. sp. Percival 1991
Hesperorthis barbata n. sp. Percival 1991
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Eridorthis australis n. sp. Percival 1991
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Doleroides mixticius Percival 1991
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Phaceloorthis decoris n. gen. n. sp.
Phaceloorthis decoris n. gen. n. sp. Percival 1991
 Orthida - Wangyuiidae
Bowanorthis fragilis Percival 1991
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
 Atrypida - Protozygidae
Protozyga definitiva Percival 1991
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Parastrophina sp. Schuchert and LeVene 1929
Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
Amphilichas sp. Raymond 1905 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Parkesolithus sp. Campbell and Durham 1970 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Pseudobasilicus sp. Reed 1930 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinuraspis sp. Webby et al. 1970 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerina sp. Chugaeva 1956 trilobite