6529RS102 - Kulparra Road Section (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.1° S, 138.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 160.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Abadiella huoi trilobite zone, Parara 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: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

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

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

• Samples in numerous Australian museums

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 97781: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"Hexact" "spicules", "Pentact" "spicules", Bradoriina "indet."
 Sachitida -
"Halkieria parva" = Australohalkieria parva
"Halkieria parva" = Australohalkieria parva Bengtson et al. 1990
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
Botsfordia sp.
Botsfordia sp. Matthew 1891
Brachiopoda
 Inarticulata -
Inarticulata "indet."
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella sp.
Torellella sp. Holm 1893
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus cf. micans