Section AJX-N, sample 241.2 (138.35) (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (30.6° S, 138.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° N, 161.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Micrina etheridgei small shelly zone, Ajax Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• 138.35 m above base.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous limestone

• distinctively pink to red archaeocyathan-dominated and richly bioclastic carbonates, occasionally interbedded with grey bioclastic limestone with iron-replaced crusts, preserving large (cm scale) molluscs, trilobites and brachiopods

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

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 215460: authorized by Thomas Wong Hearing, entered by Thomas Wong Hearing on 10.11.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida -
Paterimitra pyramidalis