NTGS4646-4648 Soudan (Cambrian to of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (19.8° S, 136.9° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 171.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ranken Limestone Formation, Ordian to Ordian (511.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• Ordian-Early Templetonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified floatstone

• low-energy, shallow subtidal environment
• floatstone, rudstone, grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. D. Kruse. 1996. Update on the northern Australian Cambrian sponges Rankenella, Jawonya and Wagima. Alcheringa 20:161-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122013: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Rankenella mors Gatehouse 1968 demosponge