Locality 37. NT 615. Left bank of 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; brown, red, silty sandstone

• Decalcified silty sandstone, pinkish brown, fine- to medium-grained

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Gilbert-Tomlinson in 1964

• 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 79172: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Pharcidoconcha raupi
Pharcidoconcha raupi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam