Also known as Locality 1, Settlement Road area, Cashions Creek Lmst. Fm.
Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.6° S, 146.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 5.1° N, 130.1° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Eoplacognathus suecicus conodont zone, Cashions Creek Formation (Gordon Group), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)
• Was Llandeilo. PJW: This should be the Eoplacognathus suecicus zone.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified, oncoidal, calcareous lime mudstone and grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: K. G. Jakobsen, G. A. Brock, A. T. Nielsen, D. K. Mathieson, and D. A. Harper. 2014. Brachiopods associated with stromatoporoid mounds from the Middle to Upper Ordovician Cashions Creek Limestone, Tasmania. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 45 45:249-265 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173680: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 08.10.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Lepidocycloides sp. Nikiforova and Andreeva 1961
Lepidocycloides ponderosa Laurie 1991 | |
Strophomenata | |
Lepidomena pulchra Laurie 1991
Lepidomena fortimuscula Laurie 1991 | |
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Oepikina banksi Laurie 1991
Murinella sp. Cooper 1956 | |
Gastropoda | |
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam | |
Rostroconchia | |
Eopteria struszi Pojeta et al. 1977 | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatocerium bigsby stromatoporoid sponge |