Mount Scott Range, upper section J: Atdabanian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Jugalicyathidae
Jugalicyathus tardus Gravestock 1984
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Pycnoidocyathus cribrus Gravestock 1984
unclassified
? Flindersicoscinus sp.
Archaeocyatha - Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus vestitus Gravestock 1984
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Veronicacyathidae
Veronicacyathus radiatus Gravestock 1984
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Bronchocyathidae
Gordonicyathus pledgei n. sp. Gravestock 1984
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia
Coordinates: 30.6° South, 138.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.3° North, 162.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
Stage: Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2
Key time interval: Atdabanian
Age range of interval: 521 - 515.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ajax Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: upper faunal assemblage 2
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: intrashelf depression
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 1766
Database number:81181
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-09 07:42:22 Last modified:2008-06-09 11:08:41
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
27349. D. I. Gravestock. 1984. Archaeocyatha from lower parts of the Lower Cambrian carbonate sequence in South Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 2:1-139 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

27350 N. P. James and D. I. Gravestock. 1990. Lower Cambrian shelf and shelf margin buildups, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Sedimentology 37:455-480 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]