Outcrop NTGS 4602, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (13.7° S, 131.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 177.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-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.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained, dolomitic, gray limestone

• low outcrops and pinnacles of light grey coarsley mottled dolomitic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: 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 60028: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 27.04.2006, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Nuchidae
Jawonya gurumal Kruse 1987
Wagima galbanyin n. gen. n. sp. Kruse 1987
 Bradoriida -
Zepaera sp. Fleming 1973
fossil occurence only probable
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
 Lingulida - Kyrshabaktellidae
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
Eothele napuru Kruse 1990
 Acrotretida -
"Hadrotreta djagoran" = Vandalotreta djagoran
"Hadrotreta djagoran" = Vandalotreta djagoran Walcott 1902
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Angusticornidae
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Coreospiridae
Latouchella cf. accordionata Runnegar and Jell 1976