Also known as Reef 3024
Where: Northern Territory, Australia (23.5° S, 134.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.7° N, 169.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Todd River Dolomite Formation, Atdabanian to Atdabanian (521.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. M. Kennard. 1991. Lower Cambrian archaeocyathan buildups, Todd River Dolomite, northeast Amadeus Basin, central Australia: sedimentology and diagenesis. Geological and Geophysical Studies in the Amadeus Basin, Central Australia, Bulletin 236:195-225 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 80920: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Archaeocyatha | |
Coscinocyathus bilateralis archaeocyath sponge | |
"Aldanocyathus greeni" = Nochoroicyathus
"Aldanocyathus greeni" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge | |
Beltanacyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
"Dictyocyathus" sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
"Aruntacyathus toddi" = Spirocyathella, "? Aruntacyathus rossi" = Spirocyathella
"Aruntacyathus toddi" = Spirocyathella archaeocyath sponge
"? Aruntacyathus rossi" = Spirocyathella archaeocyath sponge | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloriida indet. Walcott 1920 | |
Sachites sp. Meshkova 1969 | |
Radiocyatha | |
Brachiopoda | |
Micrina etheridgei Tate 1892 | |
Lingulata | |
? Lingulella sp. Salter 1866 | |
Paterinata | |
Askepasma toddense Laurie 1986 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Dailyatia ajax Bischoff 1976
Kennardia reticulata Laurie 1986 | |
? Paterimitra pyramidalis Laurie 1986
? Eccentrotheca cf. kanesia Landing et al. 1980 | |
Helcionelloida | |
Pelagiella sp. Matthew 1895 | |
Aculifera | |
"Thambetolepis sp." = Sinosachites
"Thambetolepis sp." = Sinosachites He 1980 |