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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Xestoconcha "sp. indet." Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam | |
? Deceptrix "sp. A" Fuchs 1919 clam |