Surprise Bay, Southern Tasmania, Australia: Gisbornian - Eastonian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Proetida - Telephinidae
Telephina sp. Marek 1952
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Nanshanaspis sp. Zhang and Fan 1960
Bulbaspis sp. Chugaeva 1956
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia sp. Billings 1862
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Pseudobasilicus sp. Reed 1930
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827
unclassified
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Tasmania
Coordinates: 43.0° South, 147.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.2° North, 176.9° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 4-5 - Ordovician 5
*Epoch:Caradoc
*International age/stage:Soudleyan - Marshbrookian *Local age/stage:Gisbornian - Eastonian
Key time interval: Gisbornian - Eastonian
Age range of interval: 458.4 - 449 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic,pyritic lithified calcareous lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Environment:slope
Geology comments: Thin-bedded, dark grey micrites intercalated with shales, few lensoidal biocalcarenites, and rare phosphatic ironstone beds
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:2695
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-14 13:19:23 Last modified:1999-07-14 16:19:23
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
81. C. Burrett, B. Strait, C. Sharples and J. Laurie. 1984. Middle-Upper Ordovician shallow platform to deep basin transect, southern Tasmania, Australia. In D.L. Bruton (ed.), Aspects of the Ordovician System 295:149-157 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]