Locality 75. QML 901. Zeehan Smelters Quarry, Zeehan (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as QML 0901 280 mm E x 383 mm N QUEENSTOWN

Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.9° S, 145.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 179.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Diplacanthograptus spiniferus graptolite zone, Gordon Limestone Formation (Gordon Group), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Given as Trentonian 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 with silicified fossils, weathered shale with calcareous fossils

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by Collected by J. Gilbert-Tomlinson in 1964

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 79238: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Eokosovopeltis grandicurvatus3
Eokosovopeltis grandicurvatus3 Edgecombe et al. 2007 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerina trisulcata2
Pliomerina trisulcata2 Edgecombe et al. 1999 trilobite
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Euchasma colliveri n. sp.1
Euchasma colliveri n. sp.1 Cook and Camilleri 2001
Euchasma caseyi
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
Deceptrix banksi
Deceptrix banksi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
1Cook and Camilleri 2001; 2Edgecombe et al. 1999; 3Edgecombe et al. 2007