Mount Scott Range, uppermost section M (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (30.6° S, 138.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 163.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ajax Limestone Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• near top of Ajax Limestone, faunal assemblage 5?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. I. Gravestock. 1984. Archaeocyatha from lower parts of the Lower Cambrian carbonate sequence in South Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 2:1-139 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81184: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.06.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stoibostrombus crenulatus
  - Stoibostrombidae
Stoibostrombus crenulatus Conway Morris and Bengston 1990
Archaeocyatha
 Ajacicyathida - Veronicacyathidae
Veronicacyathus limbatus n. sp., "Bractocyathus ? labiosus" = Veronicacyathus
Veronicacyathus limbatus n. sp. Gravestock 1984 archaeocyath sponge
"Bractocyathus ? labiosus" = Veronicacyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Pycnoidocyathus synapticulosus Taylor 1910 archaeocyath sponge
Sigmofungia sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Syringocnemidae
Syringocnema sp. archaeocyath sponge