Where: South Australia, Australia (31.4° S, 138.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 164.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Part of the Pound Subgroup. The Rawnsley Quartzite is disconformably succeeded by a Lower Cambrian sequence of the Uratanna and Parachilna Formations. All specimens collected from the upper fossiliferous facies of the Ediacra Member, low in the Rawnsley Quartzite. The fossiliferous beds are interpretted as storm event beds (tempestites) deposited between storm-and fair-weather wave base.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Primary reference: J. G. Gehling and J. K. Rigby. 1996. Long expected sponges from the Neoproterozoic Ediacara fauna of South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 70(2):185-195 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10491: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 11.05.2001

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