Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.8° S, 133.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 174.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sequence 3 Member (Pacoota Formation), Warendian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)
• Late Warendian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, micaceous, brown, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by N.O. Jones in 1955
• CPC specimens
Primary reference: J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson. 1977. Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin 174:1-64 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79322: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
? Euconia "sp. indet." Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Xestoconcha kraciukae Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
Colpantyx woolleyi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam | |
Rostroconchia | |
Technophorus walteri Pojeta et al. 1977 | |
? Pinnocaris "sp. C" Etheridge 1878 | |
Trilobita | |
Apatokephalus cf. hyotan trilobite | |
Psilocephalina cf. lubrica Hsu 1948 trilobite | |
Koraipsis cf. taiziheensis trilobite |