CG db (Ediacaran of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (31.2° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 164.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: White Sea other zone, Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, medium, white sandstone

• See Gehling, J. G. 2000. Environmental interpretation and a sequence stratigraphic framework for the terminal Proterozoic Ediacara Member within the Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia. Precambrian Research 100:65-95.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Museum repository: South Australian Museum (SAM)

Primary reference: M. L. Droser, J. G. Gehling, and S. R. Jensen. 2006. Assemblage palaeoecology of the Ediacara biota: The unabridged edition?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 232:131-147 [M. Laflamme/M. Laflamme]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194102: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
  -
"Metazoa "Striped banana"" = Animalia
"Metazoa "Striped banana"" = Animalia Linnaeus 1758
 Triradialomorpha -
Tribrachidium sp.
Tribrachidium sp. Glaessner 1959
 Eumetazoa -
Parvancorina minchami
Parvancorina minchami Glaessner 1958
Rugoconites
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Rugoconites sp.
Rugoconites sp. Glaessner and Wade 1966
 Bilateria -
Dickinsonia costata
Dickinsonia costata Sprigg 1947