Locality 04. NT237B East of road near aboriginal rock paintings 12 kilometers southwest of Alice Springs on Owen Springs road. (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.8° S, 133.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 174.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Late Warendian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Decalcified fine-grained silty sandstone, pinkish-buff with brown and purple staining.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N.O. Jones in 1955

• 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 79010: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

• fossils smaller and less abundant than in locality 03.
Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Technophorus walteri Pojeta et al. 1977
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
? Pinnocaris "sp. C" Etheridge 1878
Bivalvia
 Colpomyida - Colpomyidae
Colpantyx woolleyi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
Xestoconcha kraciukae Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina cf. lubrica Hsu 1948 trilobite