Where: South Australia, Australia (34.8° S, 137.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° N, 161.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kaimenella reticulata small shelly zone, Minlaton Formation, Toyonian (512.9 - 510.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, gray, blue, calcareous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Collected by BHP in 1981; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: D. I. Gravestock, E. M. Alexander, Y. E. Demidenko, N. V. Esakova, L. E. Holmer, J. B. Jago, T.-r. Lin, L. M. Melnikova, P. Yu Parkhaev, A. Yu Rozanov, G. T. Ushatinskaya, W.-l. Zang, E. A. Zhegallo and A. Yu Zhuravlev. 2001. The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia. Russian Academy of Sciences, Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute 282:1-344 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97988: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.09.2010, edited by Hallie Street

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