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 | |
Stoibostrombus crenulatus Conway Morris and Bengston 1990 | |
Archaeocyatha | |
Veronicacyathus limbatus n. sp., "Bractocyathus ? labiosus" = Veronicacyathus
Veronicacyathus limbatus n. sp. Gravestock 1984 archaeocyath sponge
"Bractocyathus ? labiosus" = Veronicacyathus archaeocyath sponge | |
Pycnoidocyathus synapticulosus Taylor 1910 archaeocyath sponge
Sigmofungia sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Syringocnema sp. archaeocyath sponge |