Outcrop NTGS 4606, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (13.8° S, 131.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.9° N, 177.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-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.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• low outcrops of light gray massive and 'two tone' 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 60033: 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 trilobite
Helcionelloida
  - Helcionellidae
Latouchella cf. accordionata Runnegar and Jell 1976