Locality 75. Shale at 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: Gordon Limestone Formation (Gordon Group), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Given as Trentonian in Pojeta & Gilbert-Tomlinson.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 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 calcite

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79239: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodontula sohli n. sp.
Cyrtodontula sohli n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
? Ambonychia "sp. A"
? Ambonychia "sp. A" Hall 1847 clam
 Protobranchia -
Zeehania jacksoni n. gen. n. sp.
Zeehania jacksoni n. gen. n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
 Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
Inaequidens davisi n. gen. n. sp.
Inaequidens davisi n. gen. n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
 Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Fidera maryae
Fidera maryae Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
"Bransonia townleyi n. sp." = Pojetaconcha townleyi
"Bransonia townleyi n. sp." = Pojetaconcha townleyi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ceraurinella oepiki n. sp.
Ceraurinella oepiki n. sp. Edgecombe et al. 1999 trilobite