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

• 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
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Conwaymorrisispongia ornata n. sp. Kozur et al. 2008
Conwaymorrisispongia bengtsoni n. gen. n. sp. Kozur et al. 2008