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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Cyrtodonta wattii Tate 1896 clam | |
Ctenodonta youngi n. sp.
Ctenodonta youngi n. sp. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam | |
Sthenodonta eastii Tate 1896 clam | |
Palaeoneilo smithi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam |