Locality 74. Bubs hill, south of Lyell Highway, 19 kilometers east-southeast of Queenstown (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as Locality 15 of Corbett & Banks 1974

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.2° S, 145.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.0° N, 176.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gordon Limestone Formation (Gordon Group), Gisbornian (460.9 - 456.1 Ma)

• Overlain by bed containing Eobronteus; given as Blackriveran in Pojeta & Gilbert-Tomlinson.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified limestone

• Buff-colored, thin-bedded, micaceous siltstone and fine-grained sandstone with some coarse-grained quartz sandst; represents a coarsening and transition to beginning of Benambram Orogeny.
• Limestone

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by K.O. Reid

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79237: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta macalesteri n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
 Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
Deceptrix banksi n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam