ammonites
Locality 17. Hy 11F*. 3.5 kilometers northeast of Mt. Levi (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 69 mm E x 256 mm N HENBURY map

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.4° S, 132.2° E: paleocoordinates 13.8° N, 165.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sandstone Member (Stairway Formation), Darriwilian (468.1 - 460.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; brown, silty sandstone

• Decalcified fine-grained silty sandstone; orange and brown staining

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.G. Gatehouse in 1962

• CPC & QML specimens

Primary reference: J. Pojeta and J. Gilbert-Tomlinson. 1977. Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin 174:1-64 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79128: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.02.2008