Devil's Peak, N. Territory, - Jenkins and Gehling 1977 (Ediacaran of Australia)

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, lower Member, Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Most Ediacaran specimes from the Flinders Range occur on the lower surfaces of the sandstone beds, however most specimens of Rangea longa are preserved on the upper surfaces of quartzite slabs. The layers containing the fossils are flaggy (split apart into layers that are 1-10cm thick). Specimens occur on a single bedding plane.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• flaggy sandstone or quartzite

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: The repositories of the material studied are the South Australian Museum and the Palaeonotlogy Collection of the University of Adelaide. Specimens discovered by the late Mr. A. K. Hansen.

Primary reference: R. J. F. Jenkins and J. G. Gehling. 1977. A review of the frond-like fossils of the Ediacara Assemblage. Records of the South Australian Museum 17(23):347-359 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10514: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 14.05.2001, edited by Marc Laflamme

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Taxonomic list

• The article marks the first use of the genera Arborea and Charniodiscus as synonyms.
 Pentaradialomorpha -
Arkarua adami Gehling 1987
 Erniettomorpha -
Phyllozoon hanseni n. sp. Jenkins and Gehling 1978
holotype and 9 other fragments