Locality NTGS4651, White Hill [Gum Ridge Fm]: 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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Guduguwan hardmani
(Foord 1890)
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unclassified
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Linguliformea indet.
Williams et al. 1996
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Echinodermata indet.
Klein 1754
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Coeloscleritophora
- Chancelloriida
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Chancelloriida indet.
Walcott 1920
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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Grant 1836
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Northern Territory |
| Coordinates: | 19.5° South, 134.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.3° North, 176.0° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Miaolingian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 3-4 | ||
| *Period: | Middle Cambrian - Late/Upper Cambrian | *Epoch: | Caerfai |
| Key time interval: | Middle Cambrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 509 - 497 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gum Ridge | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: AGE: Middle Cambrian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified grainstone |
| Lithology description: bioclasti coquina | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Although many macrofossils are listed as being present in the section, their genera are not listed and it is unknown whether or not they were collected. Their occurrance is documented as phyla or class in the taxonomic list. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 9873 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | P. Borkow |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-01-25 12:01:00 | Last modified: | 2009-06-12 12:40:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-01-25 12:01:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 855. | P. D. Kruse. 1997. Hyolith guts in the Cambrian of northern Australia - turning hyolithomorphs upside down. Lethaia 29:213-217 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow] |