Adelaide geosyncline, Botomian sequence (Cambrian of Australia)
Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 13.6° N, 160.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• Lower Cambrian age. Sequence lies above a clastic sequence of Tommotian Age.
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; carbonate
Primary reference: J. B. Jago. 1981. Fossiliferous Cambrian sequences in the Southwestern Pacific part of Gondwanaland. Open-file report OF 81-0743:93-96 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42285: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 27.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| unclassified | |
| Trilobita | |
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Yorkella sp. Kobayashi 1942 trilobite
Eoredlichia sp. Chang 1950 trilobite | |
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? Dolerolenus sp. Leanza 1949 trilobite | |
| Brachiopoda | |
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
| Hyolitha | |
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Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
| Archaeocyatha | |
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Archaeocyathida indet. Okulitch 1935 archaeocyath sponge | |