Yorke Peninsula, Curramulka, Kulpara archaeocyaths (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as This needs to be divided into multiple localities: PJW

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.7° S, 137.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 160.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kulpara Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• topmost 3-4 m of the Kulpara Formation and basal 2.5 m of the overlying Parara Formation, Spirillicyathus tenuis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. Y. Zhuravlev and D. I. Gravestock. 1994. Archaeocyaths from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia and archaeocyathan Early Cambrian zonation. Alcheringa 18(1):1-54 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81018: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Usloncyathidae
"Dictyofavus obtusus" = Usloncyathus obtusus
"Dictyofavus obtusus" = Usloncyathus obtusus Gravestock 1984 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Beltanacyathidae
 Archaeocyathida - Copleicyathidae
Copleicyathus cymosus Gravestock 1984 archaeocyath sponge
Spirillicyathus pigmentus archaeocyath sponge
Spirillicyathus tenuis archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Bronchocyathidae
Gordonicyathus merus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Densocyathidae
Deceptioncyathus synapticulosus Gravestock 1984 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulocyathidae
Tumulocyathus cf. transitus Gravestock 1984 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Anaptyctocyathidae
Anaptyctocyathus oppositus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
Dokidocyathus osseus Gravestock 1984 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida -
"Somphocyathus" coralloides archaeocyath sponge