Port Julia 1A Template - Moonan (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.7° S, 137.9° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 161.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pelagiella madianensis small shelly zone, Moonan Formation, Toyonian (512.9 - 510.2 Ma)

• Kaimenella reticulata SSF zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, black, gray, argillaceous, calcareous shale

• Dark grey to black arenaceous shale with calcareous laminae containing shelly fossils, acritarchs and bacterial filaments. The shale is overlain by upward coarsening beds of siltsone and micaceous fine-grained sandstone with siliciclastic pebbles, mud clasts and slump folds. A scour surface within the micaceous sandstone is overlain by very glauconitic, bioturbated sandstone. Bioturbation is restricted to the upper part of the formation.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: bulk, chemical

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96928: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.07.2010

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