ammonites
Outcrop NTGS 4611, Daly Basin, Tindall Limestone (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: Northern Territory, Australia (14.0° S, 131.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.6° N, 177.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tindall Limestone Formation (Daly River Group), Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• Late Ordian to early Templetonian: Considered to be Middle Cambrian according to Cooper 2004.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained, gray limestone

• coarsely mottled distinctive 'two tone' lithology, compromising centrimetre-scale interbeds of light gray lime wackstone and darker gray dolomitic siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: acetic,

Primary reference: P. D. Kruse. 1990. Cambrian palaeontology of the Daly Basin. Northern Territory Geological Survey 7:1-58 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60047: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 28.04.2006