Locality 64. ML 16*. Hills south of Deering Creek (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 481 mm E x 122 mm N MOUNT LIEBIG

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.7° S, 131.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.6° N, 163.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, micaceous, white, yellow, silty sandstone

• Decalcified yellow and white silty micaceous 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 in 1961

• 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 79227: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta wattii, Cyrtodonta staffordae
Cyrtodonta wattii Tate 1896 clam
Cyrtodonta staffordae Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam