Kurrajong Park Formation, Manildra Area, New South Wales (Silurian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° N, 173.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kurrajong Park Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and shale

• Cowra Trough. "Little is known of the origin of these sediments but the presence of large areas of Conchidium-bearing late Wenlockian limestones in the Molong and Borenore districts of the the Molong Geanticline, about 20 km to the E, suggests that the sea floor shallowed in that direction."
• "320 m sequence of siltstones, shales and greywackes."

Primary reference: N. M. Savage. 1974. The brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Maradana Shale, New South Wales. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 146(1-3):1-51 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24909: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Rhipidium sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Pentamerida - Subrianidae
Conchidium sp. Oehlert 1887
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
"Monograptus testis" = Testograptus testis Barrande 1859 graptolite
Monograptus dubius graptolite