Westfield Road Section. 1290 meters. (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.6° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° N, 178.5° E)

When: Glyptograptus persculptus graptolite zone, Westfield Sandstone Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone

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 167048: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer sp.
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
 Orthida - Cathaysiorthidae
"Hirnantia cf. enorme" = Cathaysiorthis enorme
"Hirnantia cf. enorme" = Cathaysiorthis enorme Laurie 1991
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
? Onniella perplexa
? Onniella perplexa Laurie 1991
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Eokosovopeltis "n. sp."
Eokosovopeltis "n. sp." Pribyl and Vanek 1972 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Bumastoides sp.
Bumastoides sp. Whittington 1954 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
? Encrinurus sp.
? Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Neodiplograptidae
"Glyptograptus persculptus" = Metabolograptus persculptus
"Glyptograptus persculptus" = Metabolograptus persculptus Elles and Wood 1907 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Normalograptidae
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis
"Climacograptus normalis" = Normalograptus normalis Lapworth 1877 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Atavograptus sp.
Atavograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dimorphograptidae
? Akidograptus sp.