Also known as SSF 7.1

Where: South Australia, Australia (30.6° S, 138.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 162.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Abadiella huoi trilobite zone, Ajax Limestone Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• = Section M (Gravestock, 1984)

•LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Ajax Fm. AGE: Bottomian (derived from Fig. 6); from Abadiella houi zone.

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•A. houi zone is Atdabanian according to Gradstein et al. 2004 (PJW3)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with silica

Reposited in the BMNH, NIGPAS, PIN, USNM

Collection methods: bulk, chemical

• Also in Australian Museum (AM), Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (NMVP), Queensland Museum (QM); see pg. 19

Primary reference: S. Bengtson, S. Conway Morris, B. J. Cooper, P. A. Jell, and B. N. Runnegar. 1990. Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 9:1-364 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49618: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.04.2005

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