Where: Northern Territory, Australia (13.4° S, 130.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 176.6° 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
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collection methods: acetic,
• NT localities were collected by M.A. Randal in 1955-1956
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 60077: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 30.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Redlichia sp. Cossmann 1902 trilobite |