The Amadeus Basin in Australia hosts the Middle Ordovician Stairway Sandstone, a shallow marine sedimentary unit. The dataset likely contains fossil records, including early arandaspid fish and conodonts, enabling correlation to international biozonation schemes. It is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated on April 16, 2026.
Use Cases
- Correlating stratigraphic units based on conodont biozonation schemes mentioned in the description
- Studying early vertebrate evolution based on arandaspid fish fossil records
- Analyzing sedimentary reservoir potential for hydrocarbons mentioned in the description
Strengths
- Fossils are described as 'abundant and well-preserved'
- Data enables correlation to 'high resolution international conodont biozonation schemes'
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Time Range
- Middle Ordovician period
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 14:06:43.195347; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Amadeus Basin, Australia