ammonites
Locality 9. NT 191. west of Saw Mill in Ross River Area (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as =

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.7° S, 134.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 179.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower beds Member (Pacoota Formation), Payntonian (494.0 - 488.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Gilbert-Tomlinson in 1956

• CPC specimens

Primary reference: J. Pojeta, J. Gilbert-Tomlinson, and J.H. Shergold. 1977. Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 171:1-54 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77427: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.01.2008