Locality 19. HY 80. Strike Valley 4 kilometers south of Areyonga Native Settlement, on track to Tempe Downs Homestead (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 102 mm E x 393 mm N

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.1° S, 132.3° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 169.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower beds Member (Pacoota Formation), Bendigonian (474.9 - 473.1 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, glauconitic, gray, yellow sandstone

• Decalcified silicified fine-grained yellow/grey glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L.C. Ranford & J. Gilbert-Tomlinson in 1963

• 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 79130: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Colpomyida - Colpomyidae
Xestoconcha kraciukae, Colpantyx woolleyi
Xestoconcha kraciukae Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
Colpantyx woolleyi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam