NMVPL76 - Horse Gully (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 160.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Abadiella huoi zone, Kulpara Limestone Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, burrowed, glauconitic, gray packstone

• Dark grey to buff, commonly burrowed, skeletal packstone/wackestone, rich in fossils with minor glauconite grains, authigenic quartz and phosphatic material (rom Gravestock et al. 2001).

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, original calcite, original phosphate, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: chemical,

• Additional Samples collected in 1994 by N.V. Esakova, E. A. Zhegallo, G. T. Ushatinskaya, and D. Gravestock. The studied collection is now housed in the Paleontological Institute (PIN) of the Russian Academy of Science, no. 4664.

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97766: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Redlichiidae
Yorkella australis