Outcrop NTGS 4608, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone: Middle Cambrian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Gunnia lutea
Lingulata - Acrotretida
Hadrotreta djagoran (Walcott 1902)
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Westonia nyapungensis Kruse 1990
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Northern Territory
Coordinates: 13.6° South, 131.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.0° North, 177.2° 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:gray lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: distinctive 'two tone' lithology, compromising centrimetre-scale interbeds of light gray lime wackstone and darker gray dolomitic siltstone
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
Metadata
Database number:60035
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-04-27 06:34:02 Last modified:2006-09-13 16:57:11
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-27 06:34:01
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]