Arrowie Syncline, Moro section, Sample 818.5 (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (30.7° S, 139.2° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 160.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Winnitinny Creek Member (Wilkawillina Limestone Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• Terreneuvian, Stage 2

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

• succession of massive carbonate, bioclastic grainstones alternating with micritic and microbial laminated carbonates.135 m thick and suggests a rapid change in depositional environment from a moderate to high energy, shallow water biohermal platform to a more restricted, low energy, intrashelf, and possibly slightly deeper lagoonal environment.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Betts, T. P. Topper, J. L. Valentine, C. B. Skovsted, J. R. Paterson and G. A. Brock. 2014. A new early Cambrian bradoriid (Arthropoda) assemblage from the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Gondwana Research 25(1):420-437 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155248: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 03.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Bradoriida -
Jiucunella
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