Publication Cover
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia
Volume 66, 2019 - Issue 6
128
Views
5
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Ordovician strata in the Cliefden Caves area, New South Wales: a case study in the preservation of a globally significant paleontological site

, &
Pages 869-877 | Received 29 May 2018, Accepted 08 Jan 2019, Published online: 24 Mar 2019

References

  • Adamson, C. L., & Trueman, N. A. (1963). Geology of the Cranky Rock and The Needles proposed dam storage areas, Canowindra. Geological Survey of New South Wales Report (Vol. 11, 12 pp). Sydney, NSW: Department of Mines NSW.
  • Australian Heritage Commission (Ed.) (2012). Australia’s Fossil Heritage: A catalogue of Important Australian Fossil Sites (188 pp). Collingwood, Vic: CSIRO Publishing.
  • Brocx, M., Percival, I. G., Semeniuk, V., & Osborne, R. A. L. (2014). National and International Geoheritage – Cliefden Caves, Fossil Hill and Trilobite Hill, New South Wales, Australia at risk of being flooded by construction of a dam. ProGEO News, 4, 1–4.
  • Etheridge, R. Jr. (1895). On the occurrence of a stromatoporoid allied to Labechia and Rosenella, in the Siluro-Devonian rocks of New South Wales. Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, 4, 134–140.
  • Etheridge, R. Jr. (1909). An organism allied to Mitcheldeania Wethered, of the Carboniferous Limestone, in the Upper Silurian of Malongulli, NSW. Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, 8, 308–311.
  • Glenister, B. F. (1952). Ordovician nautiloids from New South Wales. Australian Journal of Science, 15, 89–91.
  • Hill, D. (1957). Ordovician corals from New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 91, 97–107.
  • Leary, D. (2017). Drowning Cliefden Caves: Environmental law and geoheritage protection in New South Wales. Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 34 (4), 317–337.
  • Moors, H. T. (1969). On the first occurrence of a Climacograptus bicornis with a modified basal assemblage, in Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 93, 227–231.
  • Moors, H. T. (1970). Ordovician graptolites from the Cliefden Caves area, Mandurama, New South Wales, with a reappraisal of their stratigraphic significance. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 83, 253–288.
  • Osborne, R. A. L. (2017). The Geoheritage Significance of Cliefden Caves, NSW, Australia. In K. Moore & S. White (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Speleology, Sydney, NSW, Australia (Vol. 2, pp. 374–377). Sydney, NSW: Australian Speleological Federation Inc.
  • Percival, I. G. (1979). The Geological Heritage of New South Wales. Report Prepared for the Australian Heritage Commission and the Planning & Environment Commission of NSW, Supervised by Geological Society of Australia, NSW Division, 303 (unpublished).
  • Percival, I. G. (1985). The geological heritage of New South Wales (Vol. 1, 136 p). Sydney, NSW: National Parks & Wildlife Service NSW.
  • Percival, I. G. (2014). Protection and preservation of Australia’s palaeontological heritage. Geoheritage, 6(3), 205–216. doi:10.1007/s12371-014-0106-z
  • Percival, I. G., & Glen, R. A. (2007). Ordovician to earliest Silurian history of the Macquarie Arc, Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54(2-3), 143–165. doi:10.1080/08120090601146789
  • Percival, I. G., & Webby, B. D. (1996). Island benthic assemblages: With an example from the Late Ordovician of New South Wales. Historical Biology, 11(1–4), 171–185. doi:10.1080/10292389609380540
  • Percival, I. G., Brock, G. A., Valentine, J. L., Wright, A. J., & Strusz, D. L. (2010). 6th International Brachiopod Congress, Excursion E4: Ordovician–Silurian–Devonian brachiopods of central New South Wales. In Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Field Guide No. 3, 94 pp. Sydney, NSW: Geological Society of Australia.
  • Percival, I. G., Engelbretsen, M. J., Brock, G. A., & Farrell, J. R. (2016). Ordovician (Darriwilian – Katian) lingulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs, 49, 447–484.
  • Percival, I. G. (compiler & editor), Pickett, J. W., Sherwin, L., & Webby, B. D. (2000). Biostratigraphy and biodiversity of Ordovician volcanic islands in the Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales. In Geological Survey of New South Wales Palaeontological Report 2000/01 (GS 2000/410), 47 pp. Sydney, NSW: Geological Survey of New South Wales.
  • Percival, I. G., Popov, L. E., Zhan, R. B., & Ghobadi Pour, M. (2011). Patterns of origination and dispersal of Middle to Late Ordovician brachiopods: Examples from South China, East Gondwana, and Kazakh terranes. In J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rábano, & D. García-Bellido (Eds.), Ordovician of the World (pp. 413–419) (Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14). Madrid, Spain: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España.
  • Percival, I. G., Quinn, C. D., & Glen, R. A. (2011). A review of Cambrian and Ordovician stratigraphy in New South Wales. Quarterly Notes, Geological Survey of New South Wales, 137, 1–39.
  • Rigby, J. K., & Webby, B. D. (1988). Late Ordovician sponges from the Malongulli Formation of central New South Wales, Australia. Palaeontographica Americana, 56, 1–147.
  • Ross, J. R. P. (1961). Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian Bryozoa of Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics, Bulletin, 50, 172 p.
  • Sherrard, K. M. (1954). The assemblages of graptolites in New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 87, 73–101.
  • Sherrard, K. M. (1962). Further notes on assemblages of graptolites in New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 95, 167–178.
  • Stevens, N. C. (1952). Ordovician stratigraphy at Cliefden Caves, near Mandurama, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 77, 114–120.
  • Strusz, D. L., Webby, B. D., Wright, A. J., & Pickett, J. W. (1988). Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian Corals and Spongiomorphs of Central New South Wales. 5th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria Including Spongiomorphs, Brisbane. Excursion Handbook A3, 63 pp.
  • Trickett, O. (1909). Report of the Cliefden Caves, Warm Spring and Fossil Hill, Belubula River. Annual Report of the Department of Mines NSW for 1908, 172.
  • VandenBerg, A. H. M., Wright, A. J., Percival, I. G., Sherwin, L., & Rickards, R. B. (2002). Ordovician–Silurian graptolite succession of southeastern Australia. First International Palaeontological Congress (IPC-2002), Post-2 Field Excursion Guidebook, 66 pp.
  • WaterNSW (2017). Project Bulletin. Lachlan Valley Water Security Project. Phase 2—July, 2017 Retrieved from: https://www.waternsw.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/126612/LVWSP_Project-bulletin-2.pdf
  • Webby, B. D. (1969). Ordovician stromatoporoids from New South Wales. Palaeontology, 12, 637–662.
  • Webby, B. D. (1971). The new Ordovician genus Hillophyllum and the early history of rugose corals with acanthine septa. Lethaia, 4(2), 153–168. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1971.tb01286.x
  • Webby, B. D. (1992). Ordovician island biotas: New South Wales record and global implications. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 125, 51–77.
  • Webby, B. D., & Packham, G. H. (1982). Stratigraphy and regional setting of the Cliefden Caves Limestone Group (Late Ordovician), central-western New South Wales. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 29(3-4), 297–317. doi:10.1080/00167618208729215
  • Webby, B. D., & Percival, I. G. (1983). Ordovician trimerellacean brachiopod shell beds. Lethaia, 16(3), 215–232. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1983.tb00659.x
  • Webby, B. D., Moors, H. T., & McLean, R. A. (1970). Malongullia and Encrinuraspis, new Ordovician trilobites from New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Paleontology, 44, 881–887.
  • Wyborn, D., Sherwin, L., Webby, B. D., Abell, R. S., & Percival, I. G. (1991). Ordovician Basins, Volcanoes and Shelves, southern and central New South Wales. Guidebook for Field Excursion 3, 6th International Symposium on the Ordovician System. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics, Record 1991/50, 55. pp.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.