Hill Cove PS 304 (Cambrian of Falkland Islands (Malvinas))

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
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Archaeocyatha
 Monocyathida - Tumuliolynthidae
Tumuliolynthus irregularis archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Favilynthidae
Favilynthus cf. contractus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Kijacyathidae
Flexanulus oosthuizeni archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
Ethmocyathus lineatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Bronchocyathidae
Thalamocyathus trachealis archaeocyath sponge
Thalamocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Polycoscinidae
Polycoscinus scuratus archaeocyath sponge
questionably assigned to species
Polycoscinus cf. papillatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Anaptyctocyathidae
Anaptyctocyathus sp. Debrenne 1969 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Erismacoscinus sp. Debrenne 1958 archaeocyath sponge
questionably assigned to genus
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Pycnoidocyathus sp. Taylor 1910 archaeocyath sponge
questionably identified
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Spirocyathella cf. cooperi archaeocyath sponge