Locality B (Silurian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.9° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 175.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Black Bog Shale Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• "top of the Black Bog Shale" "upper Ludlow"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

• "mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by John Pickett

• Reposited in Australian Museum

Primary reference: P. A. Jell. 2010. Late Silurian echinoderms from the Yass Basin, New South Wales - the earliest holothurian body fossil and two diploporitan cystoids (Sphaeronitidae and Holocystitidae). Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 39:27-41 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201150: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 01.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Holothuroidea
 Dendrochirotida - Heterothyonidae
Porosothyone picketti Jell 2010 sea cucumber