Locality 56. Hy 260*. James Range 'A' Anticline, east end of Merrick Gully (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 548 mm E x 429 mm N Glenormiston map

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.1° S, 133.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 173.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chosonodina heifurthi - Cordylodus angulatus conodont zone, Sequence 3 Member (Pacoota Formation), Warendian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• Sandstone Member. Late Warendian.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, silty sandstone

• fine grained silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.H. Shergold & J. Pojeta in 1974

• 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 77522: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Technophorus walteri n. sp. Pojeta et al. 1977
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina cf. lubrica Hsu 1948 trilobite