WCB 707/21 (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as The Gap

Where: Tasmania, Australia (18.6° S, 125.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 2.1° S, 108.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spanodonta/Tinopena brachiopod zone, Gap Creek Formation, Bendigonian (474.9 - 473.1 Ma)

• Be4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• based on key.

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 186107: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Teiichispira cornucopiae2
Teiichispira cornucopiae2 Hill et al. 1969 snail
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Tritoechia sp.1
Tritoechia sp.1 Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Strophomenida - Taffiidae
Tinopena shergoldi1, Spanodonta hoskingiae1
Tinopena shergoldi1 Laurie 1997
Spanodonta hoskingiae1 Prendergast 1935
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
? Pseudomimella sp.1, ? Oligorthis sp.1
1Laurie 1997; 2Wagner 2023