Florentine Synclinorium, Tasmania (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as Florentine Synclinorium, Tasmania, Australia

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.0° S, 146.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 166.4° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Florentine Valley Limestone Formation (Junee Group), Lancefieldian (484.3 - 474.9 Ma)

• Junee Group

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, glauconitic, calcareous sandstone and siltstone

• Lithology varies somewhat with locality and stratigraphic position within the formation; lithology generally described as a mixture of quartzose and calcareous siltstone, impure nodular limestone, chert, and minor glauconitic shale. Represents the base of a transgressive sequence that continues into overlying Gordon Limestone Group; base in most areas is coarse quartz sandstone with worm borrows and snails, ripple marks, load casts, and trough cross-bedding.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 2671: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Taxonomic list a composite of several articles. PJW: I divided the original article into separate lists.
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unclassified
  -
"Cystoid" indet.
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Psigraptus sp.
Psigraptus sp. Jackson 1967 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus "sp. 1", Didymograptus "sp. 2", Clonograptus "sp. 1", Clonograptus "sp. 2"
Didymograptus "sp. 1" McCoy 1851 graptolite
"sp. 1" - originally entered as "Didymograptus sp. 1"
Didymograptus "sp. 2" McCoy 1851 graptolite
"sp. 2" - originally entered as "Didymograptus sp. 2"
Clonograptus "sp. 1" Nicholson 1873 graptolite
"sp. 1" - originally entered as "Clonograptus sp. 1"
Clonograptus "sp. 2" Nicholson 1873 graptolite
"sp. 2" - originally entered as "Clonograptus sp. 2"
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Tetragraptus sp.
Tetragraptus sp. Salter 1863 graptolite
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Lecanospira sp.
Lecanospira sp. Butts 1926 snail
external mold
 Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
? Lesueurilla sp.
? Lesueurilla sp. Koken 1898 snail
originally entered as "Lesueurilla? sp."
 Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
? Raphistoma sp.
? Raphistoma sp. Hall 1847 snail
originally entered as "Raphistoma? sp."
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
"Nuculites (Cleidophorus) sp." = Nuculites
"Nuculites (Cleidophorus) sp." = Nuculites Conrad 1841 clam
Nuculites (Cleidophorus)
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp.
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Inarticulata
  -
Inarticulata indet.
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia "sp. 1", Tritoechia "sp. 2", Tritoechia "sp. 3"
Tritoechia "sp. 1" Ulrich and Cooper 1936
"sp. 1" - originally entered as "Tritoechia sp. 1"
Tritoechia "sp. 2" Ulrich and Cooper 1936
"sp. 2" - originally entered as "Tritoechia sp. 2"
Tritoechia "sp. 3" Ulrich and Cooper 1936
"sp. 3?" - originally entered as "Tritoechia sp. 3?"
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
Syntrophopsis sp.
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Apheoorthis sp.
Apheoorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Originally listed as Finkelnburgia; changed in Strait and Laurie, 1980.
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Nanorthis sp.
Nanorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
? Schmidtites sp.
? Schmidtites sp. Schuchert and LeVene 1929
originally entered as "Schmidtites? sp."
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Megistaspis sp., "Ekeraspis sp." = Megistaspis (Ekeraspis)
Megistaspis sp. Jaanusson 1956 trilobite
"Ekeraspis sp." = Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) Tjernvik 1956 trilobite
 Asaphida - Taihungshaniidae
Asaphopsis "sp. 1", Asaphopsis "sp. 2"
Asaphopsis "sp. 1" Mansuy 1920 trilobite
"sp. 1?" - originally entered as "Asaphopsis sp. 1?"
Asaphopsis "sp. 2" Mansuy 1920 trilobite
"sp. 2?" - originally entered as "Asaphopsis sp. 2?"
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
Dikelokephalina sp.
Dikelokephalina sp. Broegger 1996 trilobite
originally entered as "Dikelocephalina sp."
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Pseudohystricurus sp.
Pseudohystricurus sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Hystricurus sp., Tasmanaspis sp., Parahystricurus sp., Nyaya sp.
Hystricurus sp. Raymond 1913 trilobite
"sp. 1" - originally entered as "Hystricurus sp. 1"
Tasmanaspis sp. Kobayashi 1940 trilobite
Parahystricurus sp. Ross 1951 trilobite
Nyaya sp. Rozova 1963 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
"Selenoharpes sp." = Scotoharpes
"Selenoharpes sp." = Scotoharpes Lamont 1948 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Parapilekia sp.
Parapilekia sp. Kobayashi 1934 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
? Pliomerina sp.
? Pliomerina sp. Chugaeva 1956 trilobite
Originally listed as Cybelops; changed in Strait and Laurie, 1980. - originally entered as "Pliomerina? sp."