Outcrop NT24, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone: Middle Cambrian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Tongshania cf. tongshanensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Northern Territory
Coordinates: 13.7° South, 131.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.8° North, 102.7° East (Wright 2013)
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: lithified "carbonate"
Lithology description: calcarenite with chert nodules
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
Collection method comments: NT localities were collected by M.A. Randal in 1955-1956
Metadata
Database number:60084
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-04-30 06:34:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-30 06:34:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]