Locality 96. 309/1-74. Roadside exposures along Gaphole Creek, opposite Burnt Well, south of side road, due south of well.: Warendian, Australia
collected by J.H. Shergold & J. Pojeta 1974

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Haniwa sp. Kobayashi 1933
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Tsinaniidae
? Tsinania sp. Walcott 1914
Rostroconchia - Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
Rostroconchia - Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Northern Territory County:Tobermory
Coordinates: 22.1° South, 138.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.0° North, 119.7° 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:member
Stratigraphy comments: Probably upper beds of Tomahawk Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: thin-bedded decalcified siltstone
Environment:carbonate 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:398 mm E X 15 mm N TOBERMARY
Database number:77712
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-01-17 08:09:18 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-17 08:09:18
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]