Horizon 3, Drillhole 83/3, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone: Middle Cambrian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hyolithida - Angusticornidae
Nganki wumirri
Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Guduguwan hardmani (Foord 1890)
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Northern Territory
Coordinates: 13.8° South, 131.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.9° North, 177.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
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 Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Late Ordian to early Templetonian: Considered to be Middle Cambrian according to Cooper 2004.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dolomitic,gray lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: gray, fresh, partially dolomitised mottled limestone
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: The carbonate beds crop out as low mounds, benches and pavements, in dolines or as towers; beds marking periods of unrestricted open shelf sedimentation
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,acetic,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:60001
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-04-26 08:35:46 Last modified:2006-09-13 16:57:11
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-26 08:35:46
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]