Locality 07. A1/63. Northeast corner of Ayers Rock (Ordovician of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (25.2° S, 131.8° E: paleocoordinates 12.7° N, 164.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stairway Formation, Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, brown, gray, yellow sandstone

• Decalcified fine-grained silty sandstone, grey to yellow, orange-brown staining

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Frome-Broken Hill Party Ltd in 1959

• CPC specimens

Primary reference: J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson. 1977. Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin 174:1-64 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79012: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo smithi
Palaeoneilo smithi Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977 clam
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
? Clathrospira sp.
? Clathrospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail