Westfield Road Section. 0960 meters. (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.6° S, 146.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 4.2° N, 120.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Diplacanthograptus spiniferus graptolite zone, Upper Limestone Member (Benjamin Formation), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• Assemblage probably correlates with Assemblages 17 & 18 of Banks & Burrett (1980). Plectodina aculeata in underlying assemblage and Belodina compressa above and below restricts possible correlations of assemblage with faunas 8, 9, 10 or (possibly) 11 of Sweet & Bergström (1976).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal limestone

• Massive micrite and biomicrite. From Corbett & Banks (1974): Variably dolomitized and stylotized, impure, brown-black limolitic limestone, micrites, and calcarenites; unit reflects a composite of several variable horizons

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. R. Laurie. 1991. Articulate brachiopods from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Tasmania. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoir 11:1-106 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167182: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis holdenoides