Wahringa Farm, microbial mound (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as Reef 1892

Where: New South Wales, Australia (32.8° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 174.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• Blathery Creek Volcanics, "Middle Ordovician"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• microbial mound, 3-4.5 m thick and wide

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. H. Wolf, E. Flügel, and K. J. Kemezys. 1968. Ordovician calcareous algae from a bioherm, Blathery Creek Volcanics, New South Wales (Australia). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 6:147-153 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80577: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.04.2008

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Taxonomic list

Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella problematica Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily