Outcrop NTGS 4621, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (13.8° S, 131.4° E: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 177.5° 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

• brown-silicified light gray 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 60076: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 30.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Bohemiellidae
Wimanella seges n. sp. Kruse 1990
Diraphora dyunyin n. sp. Kruse 1990
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962
 Hyolithida - Angusticornidae
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Gunnia lutea trilobite