Rangari (Yoo Loc. 14). 1.7 km north of Rangari homestead: Hastarian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | New South Wales |
| Coordinates: | 30.7° South, 150.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.1° South, 142.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Tournaisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Hastarian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 358.90000 - 353.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tulcumba Sandstone | Member: | Rangari Limestone | ||
| Local section: | Rangari | Local bed: | Grey bioclastic limestone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Tournaisian substange 1b. Brachiopod zone: Tulcumbella tenuistriata. Conodont zone: S. crenulata [JA: originally entered as Tournaisian, but Hastarian based on zonal assignment; see Somerville 2008] | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,gray lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Grey crinoidal bioclastic limestone. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Australian National Museum | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 43903 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-08-28 21:58:28 | Last modified: | 2012-08-20 06:56:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-08-28 21:58:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11431. | E. K. Yoo. 1994. Carboniferous Mollusca from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australia Museum 46(2):63-120 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |