ammonites
6429RS103 - Horse Gully (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 160.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Abadiella huoi zone, Kulpara Limestone Formation, Atdabanian (520.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic, peloidal, gray grainstone

• Light grey and buff dolomitic peloidal spicular grainstone (from Gravestock et al. 2001).

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, original calcite, original phosphate, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: chemical,

• Additional Samples collected in 1994 by N.V. Esakova, E. A. Zhegallo, G. T. Ushatinskaya, and D. Gravestock. The studied collection is now housed in the Paleontological Institute (PIN) of the Russian Academy of Science, no. 4664.

Primary reference: S. Bengtson, S. Conway Morris, B. J. Cooper, P. A. Jell, and B. N. Runnegar. 1990. Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 9:1-364 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97767: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.08.2010