Locality 01. Settlement Road area: Darriwilian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea
- Labechiida
- Stromatoceriidae
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Stromatocerium bigsby
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Leptellinidae
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Lepidomena fortimuscula
Laurie 1991
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Lepidomena pulchra
Laurie 1991
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Strophomenidae
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Strophomena sp.
Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
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2 specimens | ||||||
Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Furcitellidae
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Murinella sp.
Cooper 1956
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Oepikina banksi
Laurie 1991
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15 specimens | ||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Trigonirhynchiidae
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Lepidocycloides sp.
Nikiforova and Andreeva 1961
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Lepidocycloides ponderosa
Laurie 1991
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Bivalvia
- Solemyida
- Ctenodontidae
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Ctenodonta sp.
Salter 1852
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Rostroconchia
- Conocardiida
- Eopteriidae
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Eopteria struszi
Pojeta et al. 1977
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Macluritidae
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Maclurites sp.
Le Sueur 1818
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Hormogoneae
- Oscillatoriales
- Girvanellaceae
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Girvanella sp.
Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Tasmania | County: | Florentine Valley |
Coordinates: | 42.6° South, 146.5° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 9.4° North, 174.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Middle Ordovician |
Stage: | Darriwilian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 3 |
Key time interval: | Darriwilian | Conodont zone: | Eoplacognathus suecicus |
Age range of interval: | 467.30000 - 458.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Gordon | Formation: | Cashions Creek | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Was Llandeilo. PJW: This should be the Eoplacognathus suecicus zone. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | oncoidal lithified calcareous lime mudstone |
Secondary lithology: | grainstone |
Environment: | perireef or subreef |
Geology comments: Approximately 25 kg of fine to medium grained biomicritic limestone containing abundant oncolites was sampled in the uppermost stratigraphic level of the Cashions Creek Limestone, located approximately 25 m west and stratigraphically above the stromatoporoid mounds |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Locality 1, Settlement Road area, Cashions Creek Lmst. Fm. | ||
Database number: | 173680 | ||
Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2015-10-08 04:16:52 | Last modified: | 2022-09-28 22:33:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-10-08 04:16:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
56587. | K. G. Jakobsen, G. A. Brock, A. T. Nielsen, D. K. Mathieson, and D. A. Harper. 2014. Brachiopods associated with stromatoporoid mounds from the Middle to Upper Ordovician Cashions Creek Limestone, Tasmania. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 45 45:249-265 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger] |