L1850 - Curramulka Quarry (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.7° S, 137.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 160.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Abadiella huoi trilobite zone, Parara Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Faunal turnover seems to happen after L1851 (47m)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Not described. Key shows limestone.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with phosphate

Reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, peel or thin section

Primary reference: S. Bengtson, S. Conway Morris, B. J. Cooper, P. A. Jell, and B. N. Runnegar. 1990. Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 9:1-364 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97743: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Trenellidae
"? Leptostega corrugata" = Mackinnonia corrugata
"? Leptostega corrugata" = Mackinnonia corrugata Bengtson et al. 1990
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Allonnia cf. tripodophora Doré and Reid 1965