Where: South Australia, Australia (31.3° S, 138.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: White Sea other zone, Nilpena Member (Rawnsley Quartzite Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 538.8 Ma)

• Most Ediacaran specimes from the Flinders Range occur on the lower surfaces of the sandstone beds, however most specimens of Rangea longa are preserved on the upper surfaces of quartzite slabs. The layers containing the fossils are flaggy (split apart into layers that are 1-10cm thick).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified, medium-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: The repositories of the material studied are the South Australian Museum and the Palaeonotlogy Collection of the University of Adelaide.

Primary reference: J. G. Gehling and B. Runnegar. 2022. Phyllozoon and Aulozoon : key components of a novel Ediacaran death assemblage in Bathtub Gorge, Heysen Range, South Australia. Geological Magazine 159(7):1134-1147more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 236926: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 07.11.2024

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