Where: South Australia, Australia (30.8° S, 140.7° E: paleocoordinates 18.0° N, 161.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Redlichia chinensis trilobite zone, Erudina Siltstone Member (Billy Creek Formation), Ordian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, micaceous, green, calcareous mudstone and lithified, gray, green, calcareous siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: cast, replaced with phosphate
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97728: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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