Also known as The Gap
Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.7° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 165.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Psigraptus jacksoni graptolite zone, Pontoon Hill Member (Florentine Valley Formation), Lancefieldian (485.4 - 476.8 Ma)
• La1b
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; nodular, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: J. R. Laurie. 1980. Early Ordovician orthide brachiopods from southern Tasmania. Alcheringa 4(1):11-23 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186098: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.06.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Nanorthis carinata Laurie 1980 |