NMVPL660 Ben Dhui Creek, Queensland - Bolindian Stage (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.4° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 175.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Darraweit Guim Mudstone Formation, Bolindian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, calcareous mudstone

• Environment is not mentioned in paper; assumed by SMH to be offshore, based on being a black calcareous mudstone.
• "...medium to thick bedded massive calcareous mudstone. The mudstone is black when fresh but surface exposures are usually decalcified, weathered and grey or green..."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Primary reference: M. Ruta and P.A. Jell. 1999. Protocytidium Gen. Nov., a new anomalocystitid mitrate from the Victorian latest Ordovician and evolution of the Allanicytidiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(1):353-376 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64543: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 10.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Stylophora
 Mitrata - Allanicytidiidae
Protocytidium elliottae
Protocytidium elliottae Ruta and Jell 1999
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Normalograptidae
"Climacograptus angustus" = Normalograptus angustus
"Climacograptus angustus" = Normalograptus angustus Perner 1895 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Neodiplograptidae
"? Climacograptus extraordinarius" = Metabolograptus extraordinarius
"? Climacograptus extraordinarius" = Metabolograptus extraordinarius Sobolevskaya 1974 graptolite
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
"Songxites darraweitensis" = Mucronaspis (Songxites)
"Songxites darraweitensis" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) trilobite