Sample 7463, Section 418, Georgina Basin, Thorntonia Area (Cambrian to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.5° S, 138.9° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 171.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gowers Formation, Templetonian to Templetonian (508.0 - 503.0 Ma)

• Euagnostus opimus zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, phosphatic lime mudstone

• intracratonic basin; environment classification based on lithology
• more or less phosphatic, locally silicified, planar laminated calcimudstone with intervals of hardgrounds, nodules and phoscrete crusts and lags. Component phosphate grains include peloids, coated grains intraclasts and bioclasts.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: bulk,

• All material is housed in the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) or in the Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Bonn (IPB)

Primary reference: P. D. Kruse. 2002. Biostratigraphic potential of Middle Cambrian hyoliths from the eastern Georgina Basin. Alcheringa 26(3):353-398 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69993: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 14.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Hyolithomorpha
 Sulcavitida - Inflaticornidae
? Yacutolituus rakatju, ? Gerkella thuka
Orthothecimorpha
 Circothecida - Turcuthecidae
Loculitheca kunka