Mystery Creek Limestone Quarry, Ida Bay (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (43.5° S, 146.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 176.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gordon Group, Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• Was Gordon Limestone Subgroup

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• no environment given
• no lithologic description given

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 189080: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 03.10.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
Hecatoceras longinquum Teichert and Glenister 1952