Cliefden Caves area (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as Belubula Fm, E horizon, Cliefden Caves area, New South Wales, Australia

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.7° N, 176.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taoqupognathus blandus conodont zone, Belubula Formation, Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Massive to thin-bedded limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Percival. 1991. Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 11:107-177 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2732: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 16.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
? Gorbyoceras sp.
? Gorbyoceras sp. Shimizu and Obata 1935
originally entered as "Gorbyoceras? sp."
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras sp.
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
Craniata
 Trimerellida - Trimerellidae
Eodinobolus sp.
Eodinobolus sp. Rowell 1963
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Australispira sp.
Australispira sp. Percival 1991
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora sp.
Propora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp.
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Taeniolitidae
Wormsipora sp.
Wormsipora sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Bajgoliidae
Bajgolia sp.
Bajgolia sp. Dzyubo 1962 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon sp., ? Plexodictyon sp.
Ecclimadictyon sp. Nestor 1964 stromatoporoid sponge
? Plexodictyon sp. Nestor 1966 stromatoporoid sponge
originally entered as "Plexocictyon? sp."