6429RS105, L1857 - 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 97769: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.08.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria spp. Walcott 1920
Chancelloria racemifundis Bengston et al. 1990
Eremactis mawsoni Bengtson 1990
Microcoryne
  -
Dodecaactinella
  - Polyactinellidae
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Eiffelia araniformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida -
"Kulparina rostrata" = Kulparina rostrata, "Eccentrotheca guano" = Kulparina rostrata
"Kulparina rostrata" = Kulparina rostrata Conway Morris and Bengtson 1990
"Eccentrotheca guano" = Kulparina rostrata Conway Morris and Bengtson 1990
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Lapworthella fasciculata Bengtson et al. 1990
 Tommotiida - Kennardiidae
 Tommotiida - Sunnaginiidae
Sunnaginia "sp. A" Rozanov et al. 1969
  -
 Inarticulata -
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida -
"Actinotheca sp." = Cupitheca
"Actinotheca sp." = Cupitheca Duan 1984
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
"Thambetolepis delicata" = Sinosachites
 Sachitida -
"Halkieria parva" = Australohalkieria parva Bengtson et al. 1990