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
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 | |
Rankenella mors Gatehouse 1968 demosponge |