Also known as 430 mm E x 79 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)
• 427 m above base of formation at that point, but basically on same level as 36 & 38.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; red, white sandstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by J. Pojeta & A.T. Wells in 1974
• 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 79175: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cyrtodontula hadzeli n. sp.
Cyrtodontula hadzeli n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam |