SYC-101 Kulpara Template (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.7° S, 137.6° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 160.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pelagiella subangulata small shelly zone, Kulpara Formation, Atdabanian (520.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Hippopharangites dailyi zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, gray, green reef rocks and lithified, ooidal packstone

• greenish-grey archaeocyathan boundstone... underlain (>286m) by thin ooidal packstone with laminar stromatolites and sedimentary breccia (stromatolitic debris) restricted to 289.3-419.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: bulk

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 96960: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.07.2010, edited by Hallie Street

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Eiffelia ex gr. araniformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Eremactis mawsoni Bengtson 1990
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Nelegerocornidae
? Microcornus sp. Mambetov 1972
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca australiensis Bengtson et al. 1990
 Sachitida -
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
? Halkieria sp., "Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
? Halkieria sp. Poulsen 1967
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Dailyatia ajax
  - Kennardiidae
Dailyatia ajax Bischoff 1976