ammonites
HG02, Horse Gully, Stansbury Basin, Yorke Peninsula (Cambrian of Australia)

Also known as HG2

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 161.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stenotheca drepanoida small shelly zone, Parara Limestone Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• Halkieria parva SSF zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, burrowed, glauconitic, gray packstone

• Dark grey to buff, commonly burrowed, skeletal packstone/wackestone, rich in fossils with minor glauconite grains, authigenic quartz and phosphatic material

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: D. I. Gravestock, E. M. Alexander, Y. E. Demidenko, N. V. Esakova, L. E. Holmer, J. B. Jago, T.-r. Lin, L. M. Melnikova, P. Yu Parkhaev, A. Yu Rozanov, G. T. Ushatinskaya, W.-l. Zang, E. A. Zhegallo and A. Yu Zhuravelv. 2001. The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia. Russian Academy of Sciences, Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute 282:1-344 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96914: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.07.2010, edited by Hallie Street