ammonites
Locality 43. 305/6-74. Black Mountain Section of Jones, Shergold & Druce 1971 (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 324 mm E X 204 mm N at base to 316 mm E X 212 mm N

Where: Queensland, Australia (22.5° S, 140.3° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° N, 179.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower beds Member (Ninmaroo Formation), Datsonian (488.3 - 488.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

• Dark-grey mottled micrite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collected by J.H. Shergold & J. Pojeta in 1974

• 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 77483: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.01.2008