Horizon 3, Drillhole CCVH1, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (14.5° S, 132.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 178.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tindall Limestone Formation (Daly River Group), Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 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, dolomitic, gray limestone

• The carbonate beds crop out as low mounds, benches and pavements, in dolines or as towers; beds marking periods of unrestricted open shelf sedimentation
• gray, fresh, partially dolomitised mottled limestone

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 60023: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 27.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Redlichia sp. Cossmann 1902 trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Kyrshabaktellidae
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Coreospiridae
Latouchella cf. accordionata Runnegar and Jell 1976