Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.0° S, 146.0° E: paleocoordinates 8.4° N, 178.2° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lords Siltstone Member (Benjamin Limestone Formation), Gisbornian to Gisbornian (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• Gordon Subgroup
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, argillaceous, sandy siltstone
Primary reference: K. D. Corbett and M. R. Banks. 1974. Ordovician stratigraphy of the Florentine Synclinorium, southwest Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 107:207-238 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2685: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.07.1999, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Tetradium | |
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Paracrinoidea | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Anaspyroceras sp. Shimizu and Obata 1935 | |
Hecatoceras sp. Teichert and Glenister 1952 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932 | |
Orthidae indet. Woodward 1852 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Sowerbyites sp. Teichert 1937 | |
Stenolaemata | |
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Trilobita | |
Bumastus sp. Murchison 1839 trilobite | |
Amphilichas sp. Raymond 1905 trilobite | |
Ogygiocaridinae indet. Raymond 1937 trilobite | |
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Asaphellus sp., "Homotelus sp." = Isotelus
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite
"Homotelus sp." = Isotelus Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Pliomerina trisulcata Edgecombe et al. 1999 trilobite
Ectenonotus sp. Raymond 1920 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Eoleperditia sp. Swartz 1949 ostracod | |
Beyrichiidae indet. Jones 1894 ostracod | |
Anthozoa | |
Lyopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 tabulate coral
Nyctopora sp. Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral | |
Lichenaria sp. Winchell and Schuchert 1895 tabulate coral "sp. 1" - originally entered as "Lichenaria sp. 1"
Lichenaria sp. Winchell and Schuchert 1895 tabulate coral "sp. 2" - originally entered as "Lichenaria sp. 2"
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Acidolites sp. Lang et al. 1940 tabulate coral | |
Trochiscolithus sp. Kiaer 1904 tabulate coral | |
Bajgolia sp. Dzyubo 1962 tabulate coral | |
Foerstephyllum sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral
Billingsaria sp. Okulitch 1936 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Thamnobeatricia sp. Raymond 1931 stromatoporoid sponge |