Also known as Locality 1
Where: South Australia, Australia (35.3° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.6° N, 159.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Heatherdale Shale Formation (Normanville Group), Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)
• Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3)
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified, silty shale
•A low energy, basinal and dysaerobic to anaerobic environment.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original aragonite, original calcite, replaced with hematite
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
Primary reference: S. M. Jacquet, J. B. Jago, and G. A. Brock. 2016. An enigmatic univalve macromollusc from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Heatherdale Shale, South Australia. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs 49:21-30 [S. Jacquet/S. Jacquet]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190396: authorized by Sarah Jacquet, entered by Sarah Jacquet on 07.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Helcionelloida | |
Tribelopoma amygdala Jacquet et al. 2016 |