Locality 46. UQL 311. Mount Datson, 50 kilometers east northeast of Boulia (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 363 mm E x 93 mm N BOULIA

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.8° S, 140.4° E: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 178.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper beds Member (Ninmaroo Formation), Warendian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F.W. Whitehouse in 1930; reposited in the UQ

• CPC & QML 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 77486: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
? Apoptopegma "sp. B" Pojeta et al. 1977
Polyplacophora
 Paleoloricata - Mattheviidae
Chelodes whitehousei n. sp. Runnegar et al. 1979 chiton