Locality 60. H6*. Grants Bluff section; Ooratha area 4 kilometers ENE of Point Spring (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as 353 mm E x 170 mm N HENBURY map

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.8° S, 132.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.7° N, 177.4° 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

• Flaggy sandstone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.N. Casey in 1954

• 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 77529: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
Cymatopegma semiplicatum Pojeta et al. 1977
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Koldinioidia sp. Kobayashi 1931 trilobite