Locality 03. NT237A(=A4) East of road near aboriginal rock paintings 12 kilometers southwest of Alice Springs on Owen Springs road.: Warendian, Australia
collected by N.O. Jones 1955

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Colpomyida - Colpomyidae
Rostroconchia - Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Technophorus walteri Pojeta et al. 1977
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina cf. lubrica Hsu 1948
Owen et al. 1991
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Northern Territory County:Alice Springs
Coordinates: 23.8° South, 133.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.2° North, 174.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:Tremadocian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 1
Key time interval:Warendian
Age range of interval:485.40000 - 482.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pacoota Member:Sequence 3
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Warendian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,brown,red silty sandstone
Lithology description: Decalcified compact fine-grained silty sandstone, pinkish-buff with reddish-brown staining
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:N.O. Jones Collection dates:1955
Collection method comments: CPC specimens
Metadata
Database number:77770
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-01-18 11:56:41 Last modified:2018-04-29 21:07:41
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-18 11:56:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13093. 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]

Secondary references:

65613 M. Owen, S. Warsina, and J. H. Shergold. 1991. Pacoota Sandstone macrofossil locality index. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 237:77-93 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]