Also known as The Gap
Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.7° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 168.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pontoon Hill Member (Mt. Field Siltstone Formation), Bendigonian (474.9 - 473.1 Ma)
• Be2-3
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: J. R. Laurie. 1980. Early Ordovician orthide brachiopods from southern Tasmania. Alcheringa 4(1):11-23 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210901: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
Psigraptus cf. arcticus Jackson 1967 graptolite | |
Trilobita | |
"Tanybregma tasmaniensis" = Hillyardina tasmaniensis, "Hystricurus lewisi" = Tasmanaspis lewisi
"Tanybregma tasmaniensis" = Hillyardina tasmaniensis Jell and Stait 1985 trilobite
"Hystricurus lewisi" = Tasmanaspis lewisi Kobayashi 1940 trilobite | |
Dikelokephalina asiatica trilobite | |
Victorispina holmesorum trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Apheoorthis humboldtensis Laurie 1980 |