NECP Bed-1 (Ediacaran of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (30.5° S, 138.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 165.1° W)

When: White Sea other zone, Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; sandstone

• Shallow, marine deltaic environments in a submarine basin between the fair-weather and storm wave-bases

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: F. J. Coutts, J. G. Gehling, and D. C. García-Bellido. 2016. How diverse were early animal communities? An example from Ediacara Conservation Park, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Alcheringa 40:407-421 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182665: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List gives just genera, but species are listed in paper.
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unclassified
  -
"new genus" "Form 1", "new genus" "Form 2"
"new genus" "Form 1"
To be described in a later paper
"new genus" "Form 2"
To be described in a later paper
 Bilateria -
Dickinsonia tenuis
Dickinsonia tenuis Glaessner and Wade 1966
 Kimberellomorpha -
Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata Glaessner and Wade 1966
 Triradialomorpha -
Tribrachidium heraldicum
Tribrachidium heraldicum Glaessner 1959
 Arboreomorpha -
Charniodiscus sp.
Vendiamorpha
  - Yorgiidae
Yorgia waggoneri
Yorgia waggoneri Ivantsov 1999
 Eumetazoa -
Parvancorina minchami
Parvancorina minchami Glaessner 1958
Rugoconites enigmaticus
  -
Rugoconites enigmaticus
Rugoconites enigmaticus Glaessner and Wade 1966
 Bilaterialomorpha -
Spriggina floundersi
Spriggina floundersi Glaessner 1958