Westfield Beds, Florentine Synclinorium, Tasmania, Australia: Eastonian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Ninkianglithus sp.
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Stictoporellida indet.
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Orthodesma sp.
Hall and Whitfield 1875
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Pterinea sp.
Goldfuss 1832
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Bivalvia
- Solemyida
- Ctenodontidae
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Ctenodonta sp.
Salter 1852
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
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Trepostomata indet.
Ulrich 1882
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Rhynchotrematidae
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Lepidocyclus sp.
Wang 1949
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Lepidocyclus sp.
Wang 1949
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Onniella sp.
Bancroft 1928
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Kjerulfina sp.
Bancroft 1929
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Inarticulata
- Inarticulata
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Inarticulata indet.
Huxley 1869
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| invalid subgroup of Brachiopoda | ||||||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
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Neseuretus sp.
Hicks 1873
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Encrinuridae
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Encrinurus sp.
Emmrich 1844
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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? Bumastus sp.
Murchison 1839
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Streptelasmatidae
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Dalmanophyllum sp.
Lang and Smith 1939
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Lykophyllidae
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Holophragma sp.
Lindström 1896
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Tasmania |
| Coordinates: | 42.0° South, 146.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.1° North, 179.0° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 | *Epoch: | Ashgill |
| *International age/stage: | Pusgillian | *Local age/stage: | Eastonian |
| Key time interval: | Eastonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 452.00000 - 449.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Westfield Beds | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Unsure whether formation or group of beds; seems to be equivalent to a formation, but of limited stratigraphic extent | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified argillaceous,sandy siltstone |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Geology comments: Buff-colored, thin-bedded, micaceous siltstone and fine-grained sandstone with some coarse-grained quartz sandst; represents a coarsening and transition to beginning of Benambram Orogeny. | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 2687 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | P. Novack-Gottshall | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-07-14 12:07:26 | Last modified: | 1999-07-14 15:07:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 80. | K. D. Corbett and M. R. Banks. 1974. Ordovician stratigraphy of the Florentine Synclinorium, southwest Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 107:207-238 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement] |