Wilkawilina Gorge sample WILK <6 (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (31.3° S, 138.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 160.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Second Plain Creek Member (Wilkawilina Limestone Formation), Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• 1-6 m above base of section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, peloidal, shelly/skeletal, calcareous packstone and lithified, calcareous grainstone

• The carbonates are dominated by richly fossiliferous skeletal and peloidal packstones and grainstones (Clarke 1986a-b, 1990), with localised cross laminated ripples and sparry stylonodular bedding.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by Brian Daily in 1976

Collection methods: bulk, acetic,

Primary reference: C. M. Larsson, C. B. Skovsted, G. A. Brock, U. Balthasar, T. P. Topper and L. E. Holmer. 2014. Paterimitra pyramidalis from South Australia: scleritome, shell structure and evolution of a lower Cambrian stem group brachiopod. Palaeontology 57(2):417-446 [T. Wong Hearing/T. Wong Hearing]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 215326: authorized by Thomas Wong Hearing, entered by Thomas Wong Hearing on 09.11.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida -
Paterimitra pyramidalis