ammonites
Locality 37. NT 615. Left bank of Ellery Creek, 40 kilometers northeast of Hermannsburg Mission (Ordovician of Australia)

Also known as 433 mm E x 80 mm N HERMANSBURG map

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.9° S, 132.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 169.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Beds Member (Pacoota Formation), Bendigonian (476.8 - 473.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; brown, red, silty sandstone

• Decalcified silty sandstone, pinkish brown, fine- to medium-grained

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Gilbert-Tomlinson in 1964

• 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 79172: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.02.2008