ammonites
Locality 32. A 1/3. Very narrow valley on south flank of Walker Creek anticline, ~17 kilometers west northwest of Tempe Downe Homestead (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 527 mm E x 353 mm N

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (24.3° S, 132.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° 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; white sandstone

• Flaggy white sandstone. (Thinly bedded, fine to medium clean sandstone; minor interbedded sandy limestone, coarse sandstone, medium silty sandstone, phophorite.)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Frome-Broken Hill Party Ltd in 1959

• 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 79158: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.02.2008