Locality 12. UQL 2865. Neeyamba Hill (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 125 mm E x 22 mm N Glenormiston map

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.1° S, 139.2° E: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 167.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nora Formation, Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite

• Intertidal to low-energy shallow subtidal marine (Shergold et al 1976), offshore bar for basal interval (Shergold and Druce 1980) or offshore, below wave base for entire formation (Draper 1977). (Dunster et al. 2006)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.S. Jell, T. Haskell & B. Runnegar in 1964; reposited in the UQ

• CPC & QML specimens

Primary reference: J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson. 1977. Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin 174:1-64 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77755: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Helicotoma sp.
Helicotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta sp.
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam