Bathtub Gorge (Ediacaran of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (31.2° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 164.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: White Sea other zone, Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, medium, white sandstone

• See Gehling, J. G. 2000. Environmental interpretation and a sequence stratigraphic framework for the terminal Proterozoic Ediacara Member within the Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia. Precambrian Research 100:65-95.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Museum repository: South Australian Museum (SAM)

Primary reference: M. L. Droser and J. G. Gehling. 2008. Synchronous aggregate growth in an abundant new Ediacaran tubular organism. Science 319:1660-1662 [M. Laflamme/M. Laflamme]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89836: authorized by Marc Laflamme, entered by Marc Laflamme on 15.06.2009, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Aulozoon indet.2
Palaeophragmodictya
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Palaeophragmodictya sp.2
Coronacollina acula
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Coronacollina acula n. gen. n. sp.1
Coronacollina acula n. gen. n. sp.1 Clites et al. 2012
 Pentaradialomorpha -
Arkarua sp.2
Arkarua sp.2 Gehling 1987
 Erniettomorpha -
Phyllozoon sp.2
Phyllozoon sp.2 Jenkins and Gehling 1978
 Triradialomorpha -
Tribrachidium sp.2
Tribrachidium sp.2 Glaessner 1959
 Kimberellomorpha -
Kimberella sp.2
Kimberella sp.2 Glaessner 1959
 Bilateria -
Dickinsonia costata2
Dickinsonia costata2 Sprigg 1947
1Clites et al. 2012; 2Droser et al. 2006