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
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
Heteractinida | |
Eiffelia araniformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981 | |
Microcoryne | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloria spp. Walcott 1920
Allonia cf. tripodophora Doré and Reid 1965 | |
Hyolithellus cf. micans Billings 1871 | |
Torellella sp. Holm 1893 | |
Brachiopoda | |
"Kulparina rostrata" = Kulparina rostrata, "Eccentrotheca guano n. sp." = Kulparina rostrata
"Kulparina rostrata" = Kulparina rostrata Conway Morris and Bengtson 1990
"Eccentrotheca guano n. sp." = Kulparina rostrata Conway Morris and Bengtson 1990 | |
Inarticulata "indet." Huxley 1869 | |
Aculifera | |
Halkieriidae "indet." Poulsen 1967 |