Cur11, Curramulka Quarry (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 - 512.9 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 96934: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.07.2010

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