Moorowie Mine bioherm, Flinders Ranges: Botomian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Tabulaconida - Tabulaconidae
Blinmanipora hawkerensis n. gen., n. sp. Fuller and Jenkins 2007
Flindersipora cancelli n. sp. Fuller and Jenkins 2007
Flindersipora bowmani n. gen., n. sp. Lafuste et al. 1991
Lafuste et al. 1991
Anthozoa - Tabulaconida
Moorowipora chamberensis
Arrowipora fromensis
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Pycnoidocyathus parvulus
Lafuste et al. 1991
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Archaeopharetra typica
Lafuste et al. 1991
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Ajacicyathus (Juricyathus) aequitriens
Lafuste et al. 1991
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Robertocyathidae
Robertocyathus brenti n. sp.
Lafuste et al. 1991
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Polycoscinidae
Erugatocyathus papillatus
Lafuste et al. 1991
Radiocyatha - Acanthinocyathida - Acanthinocyathidae
Acanthinocyathus apertus
Lafuste et al. 1991
Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Hormogoneae - Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia
Coordinates: 31.0° South, 139.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.3° North, 162.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2-3
Key time interval: Botomian
Age range of interval: 515.6 - 512.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moorowie
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: upper parts of of the lower unit 9, middle Moorowie Formation, Late Botomian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "reef rocks"
Lithology description: slumped reefal blocks within a megabreccia
Environment:platform/shelf-margin reef
Geology comments: calcimicrobe-archaeocyathan bioherm
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 1769
Database number:79944
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-28 01:37:03 Last modified:2008-03-28 05:00:20
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26866. M. Fuller and R. Jenkins. 2007. Reef corals from the Lower Cambrian of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Palaeontology 50(4):961-980 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

26867 J. Lafuste, F. Debrenne, A. Gandin and D. Gravestock. 1991. The oldest tabulate coral and the associated Archaeocyatha, Lower Cambrian, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Geobios 24(6):697-718 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]