Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 160.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Abadiella huoi trilobite zone, Kulpara Limestone Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with phosphate
Primary reference: H. W. Kozur, H. Mostler, and J. E. Repetski. 2008. A new heteractinellid calcareous sponge from the lowermost Ordovician of Nevada and a discussion of the suborder Heteractinellidae. GeoAlp 5:53-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120882: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Heteractinida | |
Conwaymorrisispongia ornata n. sp., Conwaymorrisispongia bengtsoni n. gen. n. sp.
Conwaymorrisispongia ornata n. sp. Kozur et al. 2008
Conwaymorrisispongia bengtsoni n. gen. n. sp. Kozur et al. 2008 |