ammonites
Cliefden Caves Orthide - Strophomenide community, New South Wales, Australia (Ordovician to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 177.5° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kalimna, Lower Wyoming, and Dunhill Bluff Limestone Member (Cliefden Caves Limestone Formation), Gisbornian to Gisbornian (460.9 - 455.8 Ma)

• Fauna from several members - the Kalimna, Lower Wyoming, and Dunhill Bluff Limestone Members, all of the Cliefden Caves Limestone Formation; sometimes given as individual formations of the Cliefden Caves Limestone Group

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified lime mudstone and packstone

• Lithology is lime mudstone and wackestone/packstone; Environment described as high diversity fauna in offshore mud zone

Primary reference: B. D. Webby and I. G. Percival. 1983. Ordovician Trimerrillacean brachiopod shell beds. Lethaia 16(3):215-232 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2648: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 14.07.1999