Also known as Second Ediacara assemblage collection, - Gehling 1988

Where: South Australia, Australia (31.7° S, 138.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.0° N, 164.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: White Sea other zone, Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Part of the Pound Supergroup, the new genus and species Inaria karli occurs in the lower portions of the Ediacara Member that is characterized as having thicker interbedded clay layers vs. the upper portion of the member (deeper water conditions than which most Ediacaran fossils have been found).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Specimens are preserved less frequently as impressions in the claystone and more frequently as counterpart casts or molds in the overlying sandstone.

Primary reference: J. G. Gehling. 1988. A cnidarian of actinian-grade from the Ediacaran Pound Subgroup, South Australia. Alcheringa 12:299-314 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10286: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 30.03.2001

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