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Middle Ordovician Conodonts and Fish from the Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus basin

Created 26/03/2026

Updated 26/03/2026

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The Middle Ordovician Stairway Sandstone consists of a succession of siliciclastic shallow marine sediments, stratigraphically positioned between the dark organic-rich siltstones of the Horn Valley Siltstone, and the regressive siltstones and shales of the overlying Stokes Siltstone, in the Amadeus Basin. The Stairway Sandstone is notable for containing early arandaspid fish fossils, and is a prospective reservoir for Larapinta Petroleum System hydrocarbons. The unit has not been directly dated, but a field sample from the uppermost Stairway Sandstone has yielded an abundant and well-preserved fauna, including micro-vertebrate and conodont fossils that enable correlation to high resolution international conodont biozonation schemes.

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Title Middle Ordovician Conodonts and Fish from the Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus basin
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/a5f8562f-819b-4758-bdb5-db4a4e5d3cca
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Reference Period 11/11/2025
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Middle Ordovician Conodonts and Fish from the Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus basin". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/middle-ordovician-conodonts-and-fish-from-the-stairway-sandstone-amadeus-basin11