6429RS112, L1762A - Horse Gully (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 161.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pararaia tatei trilobite zone, Parara Limestone Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, burrowed, glauconitic, gray packstone

• Dark grey to buff, commonly burrowed, skeletal packstone/wackestone, rich in fossils with minor glauconite grains, authigenic quartz and phosphatic material (rom Gravestock et al. 2001).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: S. Bengtson, S. Conway Morris, B. J. Cooper, P. A. Jell, and B. N. Runnegar. 1990. Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 9:1-364 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97777: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
 Sachitida -
Bivalvia
 Fordillida - Fordillidae
Pojetaia runnegari Jell 1980 clam
Brachiopoda
 Inarticulata -
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Lapworthella fasciculata Bengtson et al. 1990
Hyolitha
  -
Hyolitha "indet." Marek 1963
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
 Orthothecida -
"Actinotheca "sp. A"" = Cupitheca, Actinotheca clathrata, "Actinotheca holocyclata" = Cupitheca holocyclata
"Actinotheca "sp. A"" = Cupitheca Duan 1984
Actinotheca clathrata Bengtson et al. 1990
"Actinotheca holocyclata" = Cupitheca holocyclata Bengtson et al. 1990
Microdictyon
  -
Microdictyon depressum Bengtson et al. 1990
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae