Adelaide geosyncline [Wirrealpa Limestone] (Cambrian of Australia)
Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 160.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Wirrealpa Limestone Formation, Toyonian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)
• Lower Cambrian age. From the Flinders Ranges.
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone
• upper carbonate sequence.
Primary reference: J. B. Jago. 1981. Fossiliferous Cambrian sequences in the Southwestern Pacific part of Gondwanaland. Open-file report OF 81-0743:93-96 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/A. Hendy] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 42288: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 27.07.2004