Where: Queensland, Australia (19.7° S, 139.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 170.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Ordian to Ordian (511.2 - 500.5 Ma)
• Thorntonia Limestone, Beetle Creek, Inca, Gowers and Devoncourt Limestone Formations
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Mehl. 1998. Porifera and Chancelloriidae from the Middle Cambrian of the Georgina Basin, Australia. Palaeontology 41(6):1153-1182 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122074: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Coeloscleritophora | |
Archiasterella sp., Chancelloria sp., Chancelloria eros, Chancelloria racemifundis, Chancelloria cf. pentacta, Allonia erromenosa
Archiasterella sp. Sdzuy 1969
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Chancelloria eros Walcott 1920
Chancelloria racemifundis Bengston et al. 1990
Chancelloria cf. pentacta Rigby 1978 | |
| Demospongiae | |
|
Rankenella mors Gatehouse 1968 demosponge | |
| Hexactinellida | |
|
Thoracospongia follispiculata Mehl 1996 glass sponge | |
|
Kometia gracilis Dong and Knoll 1996 glass sponge | |
| Heteractinida | |
Eiffelia sp., "? Canistrumella sp." = Petaloptyon
Eiffelia sp. Walcott 1920
"? Canistrumella sp." = Petaloptyon Raymond 1931 | |
| Nabaviella | |
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? Nabaviella sp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976 | |