Locality 36. NT 252. Gorge through strike ridges, Ellery Creek, 40 kilometers northeast of Hermannsburg Mission (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 433 mm E x 80 mm N HERMANSBURG map

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.9° S, 132.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 169.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous, brown, yellow, silty sandstone

• Buff to yellow micaceous silty sandstone; brown staining

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.A. Condon in 1957

• CPC & QML 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 79171: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.02.2008

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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