Canning Basin, 20 kilometers southeast of Fitzroy Crossing (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.3° S, 125.7° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 159.6° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Emanuel Formation), Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• Formation ranges from Tremadoc to Early Arenig; gastropods are from the upper part

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: W. Yu. 1993. Early Ordovician gastropods from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australia Museum 16(3):437-458 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56626: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
"Ecculiomphalus aff. abendanoni" = Eccyliopterus abendanoni, "Pararaphistoma (Pararaphistoma) qualteriatum" = Pararaphistoma qualteriata, "Pararaphistoma (Climacoraphistoma) vaginati" = Pararaphistoma vaginati
"Ecculiomphalus aff. abendanoni" = Eccyliopterus abendanoni Frech 1911 snail
"Pararaphistoma (Pararaphistoma) qualteriatum" = Pararaphistoma qualteriata von Schlotheim 1820 snail
"Pararaphistoma (Climacoraphistoma) vaginati" = Pararaphistoma vaginati Koken and Perner 1925 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Peelerophon oehlerti Bergeron 1889 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania sp. Hall 1847 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
"Seelya emanuelensis n. sp." = Plethospira emanuelensis
"Seelya emanuelensis n. sp." = Plethospira emanuelensis Yu 1993 snail