Horizon 7, Drillhole 86/1, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (14.3° S, 131.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.6° N, 177.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tindall Limestone Formation (Daly River Group), Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Late Ordian to early Templetonian: Considered to be Middle Cambrian according to Cooper 2004.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone and lithified packstone

• The carbonate beds crop out as low mounds, benches and pavements, in dolines or as towers; beds marking periods of unrestricted open shelf sedimentation
• distinctive 'two tone' lithology, compromising centrimetre-scale interbeds of light gray lime wackstone and darker gray dolomitic siltstone; bioclastic packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with silica

Collection methods: core, acetic,

Primary reference: P. D. Kruse. 1990. Cambrian palaeontology of the Daly Basin. Northern Territory Geological Survey 7:1-58 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60019: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 27.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Gunnia lutea, "Tongshania cf. tongshanensis" = Douposiella
Gunnia lutea trilobite
"Tongshania cf. tongshanensis" = Douposiella trilobite
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Guduguwan hardmani Foord 1890
 Hyolithida - Angusticornidae
Lingulata
 Acrotretida -
"Hadrotreta djagoran" = Vandalotreta djagoran
"Hadrotreta djagoran" = Vandalotreta djagoran Walcott 1902
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
Eothele napuru Kruse 1990
 Lingulida - Kyrshabaktellidae
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Bohemiellidae
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Coreospiridae
Latouchella cf. accordionata Runnegar and Jell 1976
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Nuchidae
Jawonya gurumal Kruse 1987