HRA 04. Holyoake Range (Cambrian of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (82.2° S, 160.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 155.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Shackleton Limestone Formation), Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• Shackleton Limestone underlies Holyoake formation & overlies Goldie Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Archaeocyath bioherm in nodular carbonates

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: T. M. Claybourn, S. M. Jacquet, C. B. Skovsted, T. P. Topper, L. E. Holmer and G. A. Brock. 2019. Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology 93(3):437-459 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199522: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.01.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Xinjispira simplex
  - Khairkhaniidae
Xinjispira simplex Zhou and Xiao 1984
Bivalvia
 Fordillida - Fordillidae
Pojetaia runnegari Jell 1980 clam
Helcionelloida
  - Helcionellidae
Davidonia rostrata Zhou and Xiao 1984
Anuliconus sp. Parkhaev 2001
 Helcionellida - Pelagiellidae
 Helcionellida - Rugaeconidae