Locality 71. ML 271*. Near nourthwest nose of anticline, Gardiner Range (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 422 mm E x 92 mm N MOUNT LIEBIG

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.8° S, 131.6° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° 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, brown, calcareous sandstone

• Fine-grained brown sandstone, partly calcaerous. (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 79235: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
Inaequidens campbelli n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam