L144. Billabong Creek, outcrop along Forbes-Brogan Gate Road (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.3° S, 148.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 12.4° N, 116.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Billabong Creek Limestone Formation, Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Upper part of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Thinly-bedded, coralline limestone and massive limestone; shallow subtidal setting

"limestone + limestone" changed to "limestone" by JA

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Percival. 1991. Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 11:107-177 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166850: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

• Several articles, including systematic (trilobites, brachiopods, corals, and stromatoporoids) as well as biostratigraphic articles. Converted to L143 because that is the most diverse list in Percival (1991). Other taxa need to be updated.
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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Wangyuiidae
Bowanorthis fragilis
Bowanorthis fragilis Percival 1991
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Doleroides mixticius
Doleroides mixticius Percival 1991
 Pentamerida - Parallelelasmatidae
Didymelasma inconspicua
 Atrypida - Protozygidae
Protozyga definitiva
Protozyga definitiva Percival 1991
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira carinata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Australispira disticha
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Paromalomena zheni, Resupinsculpta cuprafodina
Paromalomena zheni Percival 2009
 Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
Sowerbyites isotes
Sowerbyites isotes Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella billabongensis n. sp.
Sowerbyella billabongensis n. sp. Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
"Wiradjuriella halis" = Mabella halis
"Wiradjuriella halis" = Mabella halis Percival 1991
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Paraonychoplecia inversa