ammonites
Locality 13. FBH AW/10. Frome-Broken Hill, Ross River syncline, Alice Springs (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.8° S, 133.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 178.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower beds Member (Pacoota Formation), Payntonian (494.0 - 488.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, yellow sandstone

• White, fine-grained limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: 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 77436: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.01.2008