L132. Fossil Hill, near Cliefden Caves (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as Was: Fossil Hill Limestone, Wyoming Mbr, Cliefden Caves area, New South Wales, Austra

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.6° S, 148.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 12.8° N, 117.6° E (Wright 2013)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Wyoming Member (Fossil Hill Limestone Formation), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Was Gisbonian - Harnagian; revised based on Percival et al. (2008).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone and limestone

• Sandstone and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2726: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 16.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis hadra n. sp. Percival 1991
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Rhynchotrema oepiki Percival 1991
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Syndielasmatidae
Sowerbyites isotes Percival 1991