CD-2, 200 meters east of Curramulka Quarry - Parara (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.7° S, 137.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 161.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Halkieiria parva zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, peloidal, black, gray packstone and lithified, peloidal, black, gray wackestone

• dark grey to black skeletal and peloidal, nodular wackestone and packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, peel or thin section

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96932: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.07.2010, edited by Hallie Street

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Eiffelia ex gr. araniformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites trymatus Bengtson et al. 1990 jellyfish
Siphonoconcha
 Tianzhushanelliformes - Tianzhushanellidae
Aroonia seposita Bengtson et al. 1990
Stoibostrombus
  - Stoibostrombidae
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Eremactis conara Bengtson et al. 1990
Eremactis mawsoni Bengtson 1990
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Chancelloria racemifundis Bengston et al. 1990
Allonnia ex gr. tripodophora Doré and Reid 1965
Archiasterella tetraspina Vassiljeva and Sayutina 1993
 Sachitida -
"Halkieria parva" = Australohalkieria parva Bengtson et al. 1990
Hippopharangites dailyi Bengston 1990
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
"Mackinnonia rostrata" = Davidonia rostratum, Anabarella australis
"Mackinnonia rostrata" = Davidonia rostratum Zhou and Xiao 1984
Anabarella australis Bengtson et al. 1990
 Helcionellida - Trenellidae
Mackinnonia corrugata Bengtson et al. 1990
Bivalvia
 Fordillida - Fordillidae
Pojetaia runnegari Jell 1980 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Eccentrotheca guano Bengtson et al. 1990
 Tommotiida -
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Nelegerocornidae
Microcornus sp. Mambetov 1972
Microcornus petilus Bengtson et al. 1990
Microcornus egregius Demidenko 2001
 Hyolithida -
Parkula bounites Bengtson et al. 1990
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
 Hyolithida -
Hyptiotheca karraculum Bengtson et al. 1990
 Orthothecida -
"Cupittheca holocyclata" = Cupitheca
"Cupittheca holocyclata" = Cupitheca
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca australiensis Bengtson et al. 1990
 Orthothecida - Triplicatellidae
Triplicatella disdoma Conway Morris 1990
Microdictyon
  -
Microdictyon depressum Bengtson et al. 1990
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
Hyolithellus filiformis Bengtson et al. 1990
Hyolithellus micans Billings 1871
Hyolithellus cf. micans Billings 1871
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella cf. explicata Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Torellella curva Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
Dailyatia ajax
  - Kennardiidae
Dailyatia ajax Bischoff 1976
Dailyatia cf. ajax Bischoff 1976
Aetholicopalla
  -
Aetholicopalla adnata
[entered as Aetholicopala adnata]