HG04, Horse Gully, Stansbury Basin, Yorke Peninsula (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as HG4

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 161.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stenotheca drepanoida small shelly zone, Parara Limestone Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• Halkieria parva SSF zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, burrowed, glauconitic, gray packstone

• Dark grey to buff, commonly burrowed, skeletal packstone/wackestone, rich in fossils with minor glauconite grains, authigenic quartz and phosphatic material

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: D. I. Gravestock, E. M. Alexander, Y. E. Demidenko, N. V. Esakova, L. E. Holmer, J. B. Jago, T.-r. Lin, L. M. Melnikova, P. Yu Parkhaev, A. Yu Rozanov, G. T. Ushatinskaya, W.-l. Zang, E. A. Zhegallo and A. Yu Zhuravlev. 2001. The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia. Russian Academy of Sciences, Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute 282:1-344 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 50793: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.05.2005, edited by Hallie Street

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites sexalox Bengtson et al. 1990 jellyfish
Siphonoconcha
 Tianzhushanelliformes - Tianzhushanellidae
Apistoconcha siphonalis Bengtson et al. 1990
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Eremactis sp. Bengston and Conway-Morris 1990
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Allonnia ex gr. tripodophora Doré and Reid 1965
 Sachitida -
"Halkieria parva" = Australohalkieria parva Bengtson et al. 1990
Hippopharangites dailyi Bengston 1990
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella madianensis Zhou and Xiao 1984
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
"Mackinnonia rostrata" = Davidonia rostratum, Anabarella australis
"Mackinnonia rostrata" = Davidonia rostratum Zhou and Xiao 1984
Anabarella australis Bengtson et al. 1990
 Helcionellida - Stenothecidae
Stenotheca drepanoida He et al. 1984
 Helcionellida - Trenellidae
Trenella bifrons n. gen. n. sp. Parkhaev 2001
type locality
Trenella bifrons Parkhaev 2001
Bivalvia
 Fordillida - Fordillidae
Pojetaia runnegari Jell 1980 clam
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Nelegerocornidae
Microcornus petilus Bengtson et al. 1990
 Hyolithida -
Parkula bounites Bengtson et al. 1990
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
 Hyolithida -
Hyptiotheca karraculum Bengtson et al. 1990
 Orthothecida -
"Cupittheca clathrata" = Cupitheca
"Cupittheca clathrata" = Cupitheca
 Orthothecida - Triplicatellidae
Triplicatella disdoma Conway Morris 1990
 Life -
Aetholicopalla adnata
[entered as Aetholicopala adnata]