Also known as 237 mm E x 148 mm N RODINGA
Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.7° S, 134.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 165.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sandstone Member (Stairway Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)
• above base of formation; base is Rd160 of P.J. Cook
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, white, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Gilbert-Tomlinson in 1964
• 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 79241: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Sphenosolen draperi n. gen. n. sp.
Sphenosolen draperi n. gen. n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam |