HG00, Horse Gully, Stansbury Basin, Yorke Peninsula (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as HG0

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 161.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bemella communis small shelly zone, Parara Limestone Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• Halkieria parva SSF zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, stromatolitic, red limestone

• Thin laminated blood-red to purple band of stacked microcolumnar to branching ferruginous stromatolites

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: D. I. Gravestock, E. M. Alexander, Y. E. Demidenko, N. V. Esakova, L. E. Holmer, J. B. Jago, T.-r. Lin, L. M. Melnikova, P. Yu Parkhaev, A. Yu Rozanov, G. T. Ushatinskaya, W.-l. Zang, E. A. Zhegallo and A. Yu Zhuravlev. 2001. The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia. Russian Academy of Sciences, Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute 282:1-344 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96916: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.07.2010, edited by Hallie Street

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Siphonoconcha
 Tianzhushanelliformes - Tianzhushanellidae
Aroonia seposita Bengtson et al. 1990
Apistoconcha sp. Bengtson et al. 1990
Apistoconcha apheles Bengtson et al. 1990
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria racemifundis Bengston et al. 1990
Archiasterella tetraspina Vassiljeva and Sayutina 1993
Allonnia "sp. 1" Doré and Reid 1965
Allonnia "sp. 2" Doré and Reid 1965
Allonnia ex gr. tripodophora Doré and Reid 1965
Eremactis mawsoni Bengtson 1990
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites trymatus Bengtson et al. 1990 jellyfish
Microdictyon
  -
Microdictyon depressum Bengtson et al. 1990
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Lapworthella fasciculata Bengtson et al. 1990
 Tommotiida -
Kulparina cf. rostrata Conway Morris and Bengston 1990
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Cryptotretidae
? Askepasma sp. Laurie 1986
Brachiopoda
  -
Eccentrotheca guano Bengtson et al. 1990
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Hyptiotheca karraculum Bengtson et al. 1990
 Orthothecida - Triplicatellidae
Triplicatella disdoma Conway Morris 1990
 Orthothecida -
"Cupittheca holocyclata" = Cupitheca
"Cupittheca holocyclata" = Cupitheca
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca australiensis Bengtson et al. 1990
Bivalvia
 Fordillida - Fordillidae
Pojetaia runnegari Jell 1980 clam
 Sachitida -
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
Helcionelloida
  -
Beshtashella tortilis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
 Helcionellida - Trenellidae
Mackinnonia corrugata Bengtson et al. 1990
 Helcionellida - Coreospiridae
Humilispira adelocosma Zhou and Xiao 1984
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
"Mackinnonia rostrata" = Davidonia rostratum, Anhuiconus microtuberus
"Mackinnonia rostrata" = Davidonia rostratum Zhou and Xiao 1984
Anhuiconus microtuberus Zhou and Xiao 1984
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella madianensis Zhou and Xiao 1984
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus filiformis Bengtson et al. 1990
 Pseudoconodontida -
Aetholicopalla
  -
Aetholicopalla adnata
[entered as Aetholicopala adnata]
Dailyatia ajax
  - Kennardiidae
Dailyatia ajax Bischoff 1976
Kennardia reticulata
  - Kennardiidae