Locality 26. HY 717*. Briscoe Tent Hill (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 503 mm E x 77 mm N

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.3° S, 132.8° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 164.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stokes Siltstone Formation (Larapinta Group), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• http://dbforms.ga.gov.au/pls/www/geodx.strat_units.sch_full?wher=stratno=17361; correlate of Mithaka Formation (Webby et al. 1981)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow, calcareous siltstone and dolomite

• Yellow/buff calcaerous siltstone adn dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A.T. Wells 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 79137: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nucularcidae
Sthenodonta jelli n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam