Also known as 417 mm E x 376 mm N LAKE AMADEUS
Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.3° S, 131.9° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 163.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sandstone Member (Stairway Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)
• float from formation
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; white, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P.J. Cook in 1962
• 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 79192: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cyrtodonta wattii Tate 1896 clam | |
Sthenodonta eastii Tate 1896 clam |