6429RS101, L1859 - Horse Gully (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 160.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Abadiella huoi zone, Kulpara Limestone Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic, peloidal, gray grainstone

• Light grey and buff dolomitic peloidal spicular grainstone (from Gravestock et al. 2001).

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, original calcite, original phosphate, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: chemical,

• Additional Samples collected in 1994 by N.V. Esakova, E. A. Zhegallo, G. T. Ushatinskaya, and D. Gravestock. The studied collection is now housed in the Paleontological Institute (PIN) of the Russian Academy of Science, no. 4664.

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10016: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 08.02.2001, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Allonia cf. tripodophora Doré and Reid 1965
Chancelloria spp. Walcott 1920
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Eiffelia araniformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Brachiopoda
 Inarticulata -
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
Halkieriidae "indet." Poulsen 1967