Also known as Locality 15 of Corbett & Banks 1974

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.7° S, 146.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.9° N, 178.2° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Westfield Sandstone Formation (Gordon Group), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Unsure whether formation or group of beds; seems to be equivalent to a formation, but of limited stratigraphic extent; given as Richmondian in Pojeta & Gilbert-Tomlinson.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, yellow shale

Collected by K.D. Corbett

Primary reference: K. D. Corbett and M. R. Banks. 1974. Ordovician stratigraphy of the Florentine Synclinorium, southwest Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 107:207-238 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79236: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.02.2008

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