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
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 | |
"? Leptostega corrugata" = Mackinnonia corrugata
"? Leptostega corrugata" = Mackinnonia corrugata Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Allonnia cf. tripodophora Doré and Reid 1965 |