Where: South Australia, Australia (35.4° S, 138.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 160.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bemella communis small shelly zone, A Member (Sellick Hill Formation), Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• "A" is a lithofacies rather than a proper member, intertonguing with lower part of "B." Section 5

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sandstone and brown, red siltstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, original phosphate

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 97700: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.08.2010, edited by Hallie Street

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