Also known as Cliefden Caves Orthide - Strophomenide community, New South Wales, Australia
Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° N, 176.7° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Taoqupognathus philipi conodont zone, Fossil Hill Limestone Formation (Cliefden Caves Group), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)
• Fauna from several members - the Kalimna, Lower Wyoming, and Dunhill Bluff Limestone Members, all of the Cliefden Caves Limestone Formation; sometimes given as individual formations of the Cliefden Caves Limestone Group
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified lime mudstone and packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. D. Webby and I. G. Percival. 1983. Ordovician Trimerrillacean brachiopod shell beds. Lethaia 16(3):215-232 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2648: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Strophomenata | |
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Anoptambonites sp. Williams 1962 | |
Sowerbyites sp. Teichert 1937 | |
Trigrammaria sp. Wilson 1945 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Septatrypa sp. Kozlowski 1929 | |
Protozyga sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Catazyga sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Gastropoda | |
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Eokosovopeltis sp. Pribyl and Vanek 1972 trilobite | |
Pliomerina prima trilobite | |
Pseudobasilicus sp. Reed 1930 trilobite | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
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Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
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Nyctopora sp. Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral | |
Coccoseris sp. Eichwald 1855 tabulate coral | |
Tetradium | |
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833 |