Locality 77. Rd 214. 2.4 kilometers east northeast of Maryvale Homestead (Ordovician of Australia)

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

• Decalcified very friable buff/white fine-grained silty limestone. (Thinly bedded, fine to medium clean sandstone; minor interbedded sandy limestone, coarse sandstone, medium silty sandstone, phophorite.)

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

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Solenida - Orthonotidae
Sphenosolen draperi n. gen. n. sp.
Sphenosolen draperi n. gen. n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam