Also known as Fossil Hill Fm, Dunhill Bluffs Limest Mbr, Cliefden Caves, New South Wales, Aust
Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.0° S, 148.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.0° N, 178.8° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Dunhill Bluff Member (Fossil Hill Limestone Formation), Gisbornian to Gisbornian (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous siltstone and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. D. Webby. 1992. Ordovician island biotas: New South Wales record and global implications. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 125:51-77 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2708: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 15.07.1999, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Tetradium | |
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846 | |
Anthozoa | |
Coccoseris sp. Eichwald 1855 tabulate coral
Acidolites sp. Lang et al. 1940 tabulate coral | |
Lichenaria sp. Winchell and Schuchert 1895 tabulate coral | |
Nyctopora sp. Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral
Eofletcheria sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral | |
Saffordophyllum sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral | |
Bajgolia sp. Dzyubo 1962 tabulate coral | |
Hillophyllum sp. Webby 1971 horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Cystistroma sp. Etheridge 1895 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Rosenella sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Labechiella sp. Yabe
and Sugiyama 1930 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Gastropoda | |
Lophospiridae indet. Wenz 1938 snail | |
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Paradiscoceras sp. Barskov 1972
Trocholites sp. Conrad 1838 | |
Troedssonella sp. Kobayashi 1935 | |
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Strophomenata | |
Sowerbyites sp. Teichert 1937 | |
"Wiradjuriella sp." = Mabella
"Wiradjuriella sp." = Mabella Klenina 1984 | |
Anoptambonites sp., "Tylambonites sp." = Chaganella
Anoptambonites sp. Williams 1962
"Tylambonites sp." = Chaganella | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Rhynchotrema sp. Hall 1860 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Craniata | |
Eodinobolus sp. Rowell 1963 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850 | |
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847 | |
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Prasopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1877
Homotrypa sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Batostoma sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Hallopora sp. Bassler 1911 | |
Trilobita | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Pseudobasilicus sp. Reed 1930 trilobite | |
Eokosovopeltis sp. Pribyl and Vanek 1972 trilobite | |
Pliomerina sp. Chugaeva 1956 trilobite |