Where: Northern Territory, Australia (16.0° S, 135.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 0.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amelia Dolomite Formation, Statherian (1800.0 - 1600.0 Ma)

• The age is constrained by an U-Pb SHRIMP age of 1648 +/- 3 from the overlying Tatoola Formation, while units correlative with the underlying Mallapunyah Formation yielded U-Pb SHRIMP ages between 1658 and 1652 Ma with uncertainties of 3-7 Myr (Page et al., 2000).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, stromatolitic, cherty/siliceous dolomite

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: permineralized, original carbon, replaced with silica

Collected in 1972

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section

• Repository: Commonwealth Palaeontology Collection, Canberra

Primary reference: M. D. Muir. 1976. Proterozoic microfossils from the Amelia Dolomite, McArthur Basin, Northern Territory. Alcheringa 1:143-158 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 227566: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.10.2022

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