Moorowie Formation, South Australia - Sorauf 1995: Botomian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chabakoviacea
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Renalcis sp.
Vologdin 1932
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Hormogoneae
- Oscillatoriales
- Girvanellaceae
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Girvanella sp.
Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
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Anthozoa
- Tabulaconida
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Moorowipora chamberensis
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Anthozoa
- Tabulaconida
- Tabulaconidae
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Flindersipora bowmani
Lafuste et al. 1991
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Ludloviaceae
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Epiphyton sp.
Bornemann 1886
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
| Coordinates: | 30.0° South, 135.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.3° North, 166.0° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Series 2 |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Cambrian | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Caerfai |
| *International age/stage: | Lenian | *Local age/stage: | Botomian |
| Key time interval: | Botomian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 515.6 - 512.5 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Moorowie | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Equivalent to the Flinders Range of South Australia. Deposited during transgressive and highstand phases of the sequence showing transition from non marine to marine of a young seaway. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks,bioturbation,red or brown lithified calcareous wackestone |
| Lithology description: boundstones, mudcracks, calcareous wackestone (red in color), bioturbation, trough crossbedding | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | original calcite,replaced with calcite,replaced with phosphate |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Specimens are spherulitic clustes or parallel calcite fibers, but mostly clusters of calcite crystallites (original). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:List does not include possible stromatolites. These are found in the formation but it is unclear whether they were collected | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 8094 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-06-19 21:05:32 | Last modified: | 2001-08-16 13:10:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-03-26 12:03:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 545. | J. E. Sorauf and M. Savarese. 1995. A Lower Cambrian coral from South Australia. Palaeontology 38(4):757-770 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy] |