6429RS103 - 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

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic, peloidal, gray grainstone

• Light grey and buff dolomitic peloidal spicular grainstone (from 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 97767: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
  -
Eccentrotheca guano n. sp. Bengtson et al. 1990
 Tommotiida -
Kulparina rostrata Conway Morris and Bengston 1990
 Inarticulata -
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
Halkieriidae "indet." Poulsen 1967
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Eiffelia araniformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Microcoryne
  -
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Allonia cf. tripodophora Doré and Reid 1965
Chancelloria spp. Walcott 1920
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella sp. Holm 1893
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Dailyatia
  - Kennardiidae