Locality 01. AS 263. West slope of unnamed gorge east of N’Dhala Gorge, west of Ross River (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.6° S, 134.5° E: paleocoordinates 18.7° N, 174.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sequence 3 Member (Pacoota Formation), Warendian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• Below top of formation. Late Warendian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Gilbert-Tomlinson in 1964

• CPC 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 77768: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Colpomyida - Colpomyidae
? Xestoconcha "sp. indet." Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
 Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
? Deceptrix "sp. A" Fuchs 1919 clam