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Collection: Locality 58. LA 211*. 21 kilometers south of south scarp of George Gill Range MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Age | 467.3 - 458.4 Ma (Middle Ordovician) |
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Interval | Darriwilian |
Lat/Long | -24.5486,131.74 |
Co-ordinates derived from | estimated from map |
Location | Locality 58. LA 211*. 21 kilometers south of south scarp of George Gill Range |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia |
Geographic Scale | outcrop |
Geographic Comments | http://maps.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&cmd=sp&zix=r&p=9791&st=&s=George%20Gill |
Formation | Stairway |
Member | Sandstone |
Stratigraphic Scale | formation |
Straigraphic Comments | poorly documented outcrop |
Lithology Description | Decalcified silicified fine-grained yellow/white sandstone. (Thinly bedded, fine to medium clean sandstone; minor interbedded sandy limestone, coarse sandstone, medium silty sandstone, phophorite.) |
Lithology | sandstone |
Environment | marine indet. |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Preservation | Age |
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Cyrtodonta wattii species | Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cyrtodontida : Cyrtodontidae : Cyrtodonta : Cyrtodonta wattii | aragonite replaced with silica | 467.3 - 458.4 Ma Middle Ordovician |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!