Minlaton-1 Ramsay Template (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.8° S, 137.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 161.5° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pelagiella madianensis small shelly zone, Ramsay Formation, Toyonian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic, gray limestone

• Alternation of grey massive crystalline limestone, irregularly banded into dark grey and light grey, with abundant styolites, and dark and light grey nodular finely laminated packstone. Gypsum interbedded with dolomite occurs at 216.7m and grey argillaceous limestone with pyrtie on laminae confied to the base of the formation. The basal part consists of 33m of dark, irregularly bedded limestone and basal dolostone.

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 96961: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.07.2010

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