Locality 05. NT 237C. East of road near aboriginal rock paintings 12 kilometers southwest of Alice Springs on Owen Springs road. (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.8° S, 133.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 174.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sequence 3 Member (Pacoota Formation), Warendian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• Late Warendian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, micaceous, brown, red sandstone

• Decalcified fine-grained micaceous sandstone, pale gray with brown and purple staining.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N.O. Jones in 1955

• CPC specimens

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79322: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Technophorus walteri
Technophorus walteri Pojeta et al. 1977
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
? Pinnocaris "sp. C"
? Pinnocaris "sp. C" Etheridge 1878
Gastropoda
 Eogastropoda - Sinuopeidae
? Euconia "sp. indet."
? Euconia "sp. indet." Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Bivalvia
 Colpomyida - Colpomyidae
Xestoconcha kraciukae, Colpantyx woolleyi
Xestoconcha kraciukae Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
Colpantyx woolleyi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Psilocephalina cf. lubrica
Psilocephalina cf. lubrica Hsu 1948 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Apatokephalus cf. hyotan
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Koraipsis cf. taiziheensis