L137. Quondong, Bowan Park (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as Was: Daylesford Limestone Fm., Gerybong Mbr, Bowan Park area, New South wales, Austria

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.3° S, 148.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 13.0° N, 117.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belodina confluens conodont zone, Gerybong Member (Daylesford Limestone Formation), Eastonian (452.7 - 449.5 Ma)

• Stratigraphy revised based on Percival et al. (2008).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray limestone

• Dark grey, thin-bedded, bioclastic limestone

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 2749: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 17.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Cobbled from several systematic articles (articulates, nautiloids, and corals). Converted into the most diverse specific list: nautiloids & corals should be reassigned. (PJW.)
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Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Protozygidae
Protozyga definitiva n. sp.
Protozyga definitiva n. sp. Percival 1991
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Australispira disticha
 Pentamerida - Parallelelasmatidae
Didymelasma inconspicua n. sp.
 Orthida - Wangyuiidae
Bowanorthis fragilis n. gen. n. sp.
Bowanorthis fragilis n. gen. n. sp. Percival 1991
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Paraonychoplecia inversa n. gen. n. sp.
Paraonychoplecia inversa n. gen. n. sp. Percival 1991
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Quondongia alitis
Quondongia alitis Percival 1991
originally entered as "Quondongia sp."
Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Trocholites sp., Paradiscoceras sp.
Trocholites sp. Conrad 1838
Paradiscoceras sp. Barskov 1972
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Fletcheriidae
? Fletcheria sp.
? Fletcheria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
originally entered as "Fletcheria? sp."
 Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Coccoseris sp.
Coccoseris sp. Eichwald 1855 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida -
? Pragnellia sp.
? Pragnellia sp. Leith 1952 tabulate coral
originally entered as "Pragnellia? sp."