Outcrop NT21, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone: Middle Cambrian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Orthothecida
- Circothecidae
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Larawa djanin n. sp.
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Guduguwan hardmani
(Foord 1890)
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Hyolithida
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Hyolithida indet.
Mathew 1962
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Bohemiellidae
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Wimanella seges
Kruse 1990
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Murrinyinella garradin
Kruse 1990
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Diraphora dyunyin
Kruse 1990
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Northern Territory |
| Coordinates: | 13.8° South, 131.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.0° North, 177.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Miaolingian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 3-4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Cambrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 509 - 497 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Daly River | Formation: | Tindall Limestone | ||
| Local section: | Tipperary | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Late Ordian to early Templetonian: Considered to be Middle Cambrian according to Cooper 2004. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified silty "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified calcareous sandstone |
| Lithology description: silty limestone, calcareous sandstone and calcarenite, some lutitic black limestone | |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | acetic,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: NT localities were collected by M.A. Randal in 1955-1956 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 60081 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | T. Schossleitner |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-04-30 06:11:41 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 16:57:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-04-30 06:11:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17229. | P. D. Kruse. 1990. Cambrian palaeontology of the Daly Basin. Northern Territory Geological Survey 7:1-58 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner] |