Nilpena Sheet-Flow Sands (Ediacaran of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (31.0° S, 138.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.7° N, 165.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: White Sea other zone, Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, medium, white sandstone

• See Gehling, J. G. 2000. Environmental interpretation and a sequence stratigraphic framework for the terminal Proterozoic Ediacara Member within the Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia. Precambrian Research 100:65-95.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Museum repository: South Australian Museum (SAM)

Primary reference: J. G. Gehling and M. L. Droser. 2013. How well do fossil assemblages of the Ediacara Biota tell time?. Geology 41(4):447-450 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191905: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Bilateria -
Dickinsonia tenuis Glaessner and Wade 1966
 Triradialomorpha -
Albumares sp. Fedonkin 1976
Tribrachidium sp. Glaessner 1959
 Rangeomorpha -
 Rangeomorpha - Charniidae
Charnia sp. Ford 1958
 Arboreomorpha -
Rugoconites
  -
Rugoconites sp. Glaessner and Wade 1966
Coronacollina
  -
Coronacollina sp. Clites et al. 2012
Aspidella terranovica
  -
Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872
Funisia dorothea
  -
Funisia dorothea Droser and Gehling 2008
999+; 1000 in Darroch et al
 Eumetazoa -
Parvancorina minchami Glaessner 1958
Eoandromeda octobrachiata
  -
Eoandromeda octobrachiata Tang et al. 2008
 Ichnofossils -
Archaeichnium sp. Glaessner 1963