Locality 67. ML 47C*. South flank of anticline, Gardiner Range (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 512 mm E x 59 mm N MOUNT LIEBIG

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.9° S, 131.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.6° N, 163.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Decalcified fine-grained white-yellow 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 79231: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nucularcidae
Sthenodonta eastii
Sthenodonta eastii Tate 1896 clam