Outcrop NTGS 4603, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone: Middle Cambrian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Kyrshabaktellidae
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Kyrshabaktella mudedirri
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Lingulata
- Acrotretida
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Hadrotreta djagoran
(Walcott 1902)
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Helcionelloida
- Helcionellida
- Coreospiridae
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Latouchella cf. accordionata
Runnegar and Jell 1976
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Heteractinida
- Octactinellida
- Nuchidae
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Wagima galbanyin
Kruse 1987
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Jawonya gurumal
Kruse 1987
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Northern Territory |
Coordinates: | 13.7° South, 131.3° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 27.0° North, 177.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Miaolingian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 3-4 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Cambrian | ||
Age range of interval: | 509 - 497 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Daly River | Formation: | Tindall Limestone | ||
Local section: | Tipperary | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Late Ordian to early Templetonian: Considered to be Middle Cambrian according to Cooper 2004. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray lithified "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: low outcrops of mottled gray | |
Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | replaced with silica |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | acetic,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 60030 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | T. Schossleitner, U. Merkel |
Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-04-27 06:06:16 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 16:57:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-04-27 06:06:15 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17229. | P. D. Kruse. 1990. Cambrian palaeontology of the Daly Basin. Northern Territory Geological Survey 7:1-58 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner] |
Secondary references:
38820 | P. D. Kruse. 1996. Update on the northern Australian Cambrian sponges Rankenella, Jawonya and Wagima. Alcheringa 20:161-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |