Where: Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (51.5° S, 60.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 138.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Early/Lower Cambrian (541.0 - 513.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Stone, M. R. A. Thomson, and A. W. A. Rushton. 2011. An Early Cambrian archaeocyath-trilobite fauna in limestone erratics from the Upper Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Falkland Islands. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102:201-225 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 182205: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 13.10.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Archaeocyatha | |
Tumuliolynthus irregularis archaeocyath sponge | |
Favilynthus cf. contractus archaeocyath sponge | |
Flexanulus oosthuizeni archaeocyath sponge | |
Ethmocyathus lineatus archaeocyath sponge | |
Thalamocyathus trachealis archaeocyath sponge
Thalamocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Polycoscinus cf. papillatus archaeocyath sponge | |
Anaptyctocyathus sp. Debrenne 1969 archaeocyath sponge | |
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Spirocyathella cf. cooperi archaeocyath sponge |