Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.9° S, 145.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 179.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gordon Group, Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)
• Eastonian based on collection number 79238.
•"Probably Trentonian", in Stait (1980 & 1982)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. Stait. 1980. Gouldoceras n. gen. (Cephalopoda, Nautiloidea) and a revision of Hecatoceras, Teichert and Glenister, from the Ordovician of Tasmania, Australia. Journal of Paleontology 54(5):1113-1118 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189079: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 03.10.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Hecatoceras longinquum Teichert and Glenister 1952 | |
Gouldoceras synchonena Stait 1980 | |
Zeehanoceras teicherti Stait 1982 |