Locality 96. 309/1-74. Roadside exposures along Gaphole Creek, opposite Burnt Well, south of side road, due south of well. (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 398 mm E X 15 mm N TOBERMARY

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (22.1° S, 138.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.7° N, 176.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Tomahawk Formation), Warendian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• Probably upper beds of Tomahawk Formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• thin-bedded decalcified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.H. Shergold & J. Pojeta in 1974

• CPC & QML specimens

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77712: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
"Ribeiria huckitta" = Kimopegma huckitta, Kimopegma pinnatum
"Ribeiria huckitta" = Kimopegma huckitta Pojeta et al. 1977
Kimopegma pinnatum Pojeta et al. 1977
 Ribeirioida - Ribeiriidae
Cymatopegma semiplicatum
Cymatopegma semiplicatum Pojeta et al. 1977
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Tsinaniidae
? Tsinania sp.
? Tsinania sp. Walcott 1914 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Haniwa sp.
Haniwa sp. Kobayashi 1933 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
"? Quadraticephalus sp." = Changia
"? Quadraticephalus sp." = Changia Sun 1924 trilobite