Gnalta, Broken Hill (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.0° S, 142.3° E: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 159.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: First Discovery Limestone Member (Coonigan Formation), Ordian (511.2 - 508.0 Ma)

• earliest Middle Cambrian age, at the top of the Ordian

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Pickett and P. A. Jell. 1983. Middle Cambrian sphinctozoa (Porifera) from New South Wales. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 1:85-92 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197348: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Nuchidae
Nucha naucum n. sp.
Nucha naucum n. sp. Pickett and Jell 1983
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
? Amblysiphonella parvula n. sp.
? Amblysiphonella parvula n. sp. Pickett and Jell 1983 demosponge
Foraminifera
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Blastulospongia monothalamos n. sp.
Blastulospongia monothalamos n. sp. Pickett and Jell 1983