Crinoid stems - Kinghorn Point, NSW
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Tuena
S 34° 57.927 E 150° 46.815
56H E 297341 N 6128537
Fossiliferous siltstone at Kinghorn Point has many examples of Crinoid stems.
Waymark Code: WMY38J
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 04/11/2018
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The Kinghorn Point Siltstone is part of the Wandrawandian Siltstone which also includes Montague Point & Culburra.
I recalled a friend many years ago telling me about these fossils but it was only after a geocache was hidden nearby that I had a close look. You can see the Crinoid stems singularly or in groups. Some have relatively smooth stems, others are skelitial in appearance & others are the circular bases of the stems.
Information about Kinghorn Point fossils is scant but I found a pdf document - Geology of the Shoalhaven Shire - published on 12 January 1968 which gives Palaeontology locations in what is now The City of the Shoalhaven. Chapter 10 page 34. See link below.
Fossil Australia (
visit link) has examples of fossilised crinoids which are typical of those found on Kinghorn Point.
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