Locality 45. K34*. Mount Sunday range, north flank of anticline. (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 521 mm E x 431 mm N KULGERA

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (25.0° S, 133.3° E: paleocoordinates 13.9° N, 165.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sandstone Member (Stairway Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, red, white sandstone

• Decalcified pink-white fine-grained sandstone. (Thinly bedded, fine to medium clean sandstone; minor interbedded sandy limestone, coarse sandstone, medium silty sandstone, phophorite.)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.T. Wells & J. Gilbert-Tomlinson in 1963

• 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 79181: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta wattii Tate 1896 clam