6429RS112, L1762A - Horse Gully: Botomian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
informal Polyactine informal spicules
Hyolitha informal indet. Marek 1963
Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
"Hyolithes" conularioides Tate 1892
Orthothecida
Actinotheca informal sp. A Duan 1984
corrected as Cupitheca
Actinotheca holocyclata Bengtson et al. 1990
recombined as Cupitheca holocyclata
Actinotheca clathrata Bengtson et al. 1990
Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Lapworthella fasciculata Bengtson et al. 1990
Inarticulata
Inarticulata informal indet. (Huxley 1869)
invalid subgroup of Brachiopoda
unclassified
Hippopharangites dailyi Bengston 1990
Aculifera - Halkieriidae
Thambetolepis delicata
synonym of Sinosachites
Helcionelloida - Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella subangulata (Tate 1892)
Bivalvia - Fordillida - Fordillidae
Pojetaia runnegari Jell 1980
unclassified
Microdictyon depressum Bengtson et al. 1990
Coeloscleritophora - Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria spp.
Archiasterella hirundo
Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus cf. micans (Billings 1871)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia County:Yorke Peninsula
Coordinates: 34.9° South, 137.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.3° North, 161.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Series 2
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 2-3
Key time interval:Botomian Trilobite zone: Pararaia tatei
Age range of interval:515.60000 - 512.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Parara Limestone
Local section:Horse Gully Local bed:41 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,glauconitic,gray lithified packstone
Lithology description: Dark grey to buff, commonly burrowed, skeletal packstone/wackestone, rich in fossils with minor glauconite grains, authigenic quartz and phosphatic material (rom Gravestock et al. 2001).
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:PIN
Metadata
Database number:97777
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-08-28 15:27:21 Last modified:2010-08-28 18:27:21
Access level:the public Released:2010-08-28 15:27:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13290. S. Bengtson, S. Conway Morris, B. J. Cooper, P. A. Jell, and B. N. Runnegar. 1990. Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 9:1-364 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]