Locality 81. Rd 251*. 4 kilometers northwest of Bloodwood Bore (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 162 mm E x 244 mm N RODINGA

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.9° S, 134.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.1° N, 165.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sandstone Member (Stairway Formation), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Below locality 79

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, gray, yellow sandstone

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P.J. Cook 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 79310: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta wattii Tate 1896 clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta youngi n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
 Nuculida - Nucularcidae
Sthenodonta eastii Tate 1896 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo smithi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam