Locality 01. Settlement Road area: Darriwilian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Lepidomena pulchra Laurie 1991
Lepidomena fortimuscula Laurie 1991
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Oepikina banksi Laurie 1991
15 specimens
Murinella sp. Cooper 1956
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
2 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Lepidocycloides sp. Nikiforova and Andreeva 1961
Lepidocycloides ponderosa Laurie 1991
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818
Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Eopteriidae
Eopteria struszi Pojeta et al. 1977
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium bigsby
Hormogoneae - Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Tasmania County: Florentine Valley
Coordinates: 42.6° South, 146.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.4° North, 174.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Middle Ordovician
Stage:Darriwilian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 3
Key time interval:Darriwilian Conodont zone: Eoplacognathus suecicus
Age range of interval:467.30000 - 458.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Gordon Formation:Cashions Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Was Llandeilo. PJW: This should be the Eoplacognathus suecicus zone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:oncoidal lithified calcareous lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: grainstone
Environment:perireef or subreef
Geology comments: Approximately 25 kg of fine to medium grained biomicritic limestone containing abundant oncolites was sampled in the uppermost stratigraphic level of the Cashions Creek Limestone, located approximately 25 m west and stratigraphically above the stromatoporoid mounds
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Locality 1, Settlement Road area, Cashions Creek Lmst. Fm.
Database number:173680
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-10-08 04:16:52 Last modified:2022-09-28 22:33:34
Access level:the public Released:2015-10-08 04:16:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

56587. K. G. Jakobsen, G. A. Brock, A. T. Nielsen, D. K. Mathieson, and D. A. Harper. 2014. Brachiopods associated with stromatoporoid mounds from the Middle to Upper Ordovician Cashions Creek Limestone, Tasmania. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 45 45:249-265 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]