Where: Northern Territory, Australia (22.0° S, 131.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.0° N, 175.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower beds Member (Tomahawk Formation), Payntonian (489.5 - 488.3 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by N.O. Jones in 1955
• CPC specimens
Primary reference: J. Pojeta, J. Gilbert-Tomlinson, and J.H. Shergold. 1977. Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 171:1-54 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77414: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rostroconchia | |
Tolmachovia belfordi Pojeta et al. 1977 | |
Technophorus kempae Pojeta et al. 1977 |