Kalimna & Wyoming Mbrs., Fossil Hill Ls., Molong Volcanic Belt (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.1° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 176.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kalimna Member (Fossil Hill Limestone Formation), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Kalimna and Wyoming Limestone Members

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• "deposited in quite shallow water, equivalent to BA 1 and 2, and measuring only metres in depth"
• thin-bedded, terrigenous-rich limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I.G. Percival, M. J. Engelbretsen, and G.A. Brock. 1999. Distribution of Middle to Late Ordovician lingulate brachiopods in New South Wales. Acta Universitatis Carolinae 443(1/2):347-350 [S. Holland/S. Holland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64565: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 10.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
? Pseudolingula sp.
? Pseudolingula sp. Mickwitz 1909
 Lingulida - Obolidae
? Lingulella sp.
? Lingulella sp. Salter 1866