Locality 85. Low strike rises of limestone in low soil plains, on road from 20-Mile Bore to Glenormiston, 9.5 kilometers NNE of 20-Mile Bore: Warendian, Australia
collected by J.H. Shergold & J. Pojeta 1974

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Rostroconchia - Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland County:Mount Whelan
Coordinates: 22.2° South, 131.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.2° South, 116.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Early Ordovician
Stage: Tremadocian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 1
Key time interval: Warendian
Age range of interval: 486.85 - 484.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tomahawk Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: PJW: Was given as Georgina Formation initially.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J.H. Shergold & J. Pojeta Collection dates:1974
Collection method comments: CPC & QML specimens
Metadata
Also known as:353 mm E x 387 mm N Mount Whelan
Database number:77657
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-01-16 11:04:23 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-16 11:04:23
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
11595. J. Pojeta, J. Gilbert-Tomlinson, and J.H. Shergold. 1977. Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 171:1-54 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]