Also known as SSF 7.1
Where: South Australia, Australia (30.6° S, 138.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 162.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Abadiella huoi trilobite zone, Ajax Limestone Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• = Section M (Gravestock, 1984)
•LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Ajax Fm. AGE: Bottomian (derived from Fig. 6); from Abadiella houi zone.
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•A. houi zone is Atdabanian according to Gradstein et al. 2004 (PJW3)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: cast, replaced with silica
Reposited in the BMNH, NIGPAS, PIN, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, chemical
• Also in Australian Museum (AM), Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (NMVP), Queensland Museum (QM); see pg. 19
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97747: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Microdictyon | |
Microdictyon depressum Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
Aculifera | |
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites | |
Hippopharangites dailyi, "Halkieria parva" = Australohalkieria parva
Hippopharangites dailyi Bengston 1990
"Halkieria parva" = Australohalkieria parva Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pojetaia runnegari Jell 1980 clam | |
Helcionelloida | |
Pelagiella subangulata Tate 1892 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Micrina etheridgei Tate 1892 | |
Inarticulata indet. Huxley 1869 | |
Lapworthella fasciculata Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolitha indet. Marek 1963 | |
Microcornus petilus Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
Hyptiotheca karraculum Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
Orthothecimorpha | |
? Spinulitheca sp. Sysoyev 1968 | |
Hyolitha | |
Triplicatella disdoma Conway Morris 1990 | |
"Actinotheca indet." = Cupitheca
"Actinotheca indet." = Cupitheca Duan 1984 | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Anabarites sexalox Bengtson et al. 1990 jellyfish | |
Heteractinida | |
Eiffelia araniformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981 | |
Nabaviella | |
Nabaviella spp. Mostler and Mosleh-Yazdi 1976 | |
Microcoryne | |
Taraxaculum | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Eremactis conara, Eremactis mawsoni, Allonnia cf. tripodophora, Chancelloria spp., Archiasterella hirundo
Eremactis conara Bengtson et al. 1990
Eremactis mawsoni Bengtson 1990
Allonnia cf. tripodophora Doré and Reid 1965
Chancelloria spp. Walcott 1920 | |
Stoibostrombus | |
Archaeopetasus | |
Torellella sp. Holm 1893 | |
Hyolithellus filiformis Bengtson et al. 1990 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Cambroclavus absonus Morris 1990 | |
Aetholicopalla adnata | |
Aetholicopalla adnata Bengston et al. 1990 | |
Dailyatia | |