Chace Range: Ediacaran, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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informal Disc indet.
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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informal Frond indet.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Frond 1 | ||||||||||
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Rugochonites sp.
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Vendiamorpha
- Yorgiidae
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"Archaeaspis" sp.
Ivantsov 2001
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| replaced by Archaeaspinus | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Inaria karli
Gehling 1988
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Gehling 1988 | |||||||||
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Arkarua sp.
Gehling 1987
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Arkarua adami
Gehling 1987
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Gehling 1987 | 45 specimens | ||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia | County: | Flinders Ranges |
| Coordinates: | 31.7° South, 138.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 15.0° North, 164.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ediacaran | ||
| Key time interval: | Ediacaran | Other zone: | White Sea |
| Age range of interval: | 635.00000 - 538.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Wilpena | Formation: | Rawnsley Quartzite | Member: | Ediacara |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples,"cross stratification",fine,medium,red or brown,white lithified sandstone |
| Lithology description: See Gehling, J. G. 2000. Environmental interpretation and a sequence stratigraphic framework for the terminal Proterozoic Ediacara Member within the Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia. Precambrian Research 100:65-95. | |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
| Articulated whole bodies: | many |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Museum repository: South Australian Museum (SAM) | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | CH_29.14 | ||
| Database number: | 89840 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Laflamme | Enterer: | M. Laflamme |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-06-15 13:13:13 | Last modified: | 2022-01-04 16:28:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-06-15 13:13:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30080. | M. L. Droser, J. G. Gehling, and S. R. Jensen. 2006. Assemblage palaeoecology of the Ediacara biota: The unabridged edition?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 232:131-147 [M. Laflamme/M. Laflamme] |
Secondary references:
| 3819 | J. G. Gehling. 1987. Earliest known echinoderm - a new Ediacaran fossil from the Pound Subgroup of South Australia. Alcheringa 11:337-345 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow] | |
| 3825 | J. G. Gehling. 1988. A cnidarian of actinian-grade from the Ediacaran Pound Subgroup, South Australia. Alcheringa 12:299-314 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow] |