Ten Miles Creek bioherms, Flinders Ranges (Cambrian of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (31.3° S, 138.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° N, 162.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oraparinna Shale Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• lower Oraparinna Shale

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified reef rocks

• series of small isolated bioherms, 3-4 m wide and up to 2 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. Lafuste, F. Debrenne, A. Gandin and D. Gravestock. 1991. The oldest tabulate coral and the associated Archaeocyatha, Lower Cambrian, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Geobios 24(6):697-718 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79945: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp.
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
unclassified
  -
Echinodermata indet.
Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Pycnoidocyathus vicinisepta, ? Pycnoidocyathus speciosus, ? Pycnoidocyathus cf. strictus
Pycnoidocyathus vicinisepta archaeocyath sponge
? Pycnoidocyathus speciosus archaeocyath sponge
? Pycnoidocyathus cf. strictus Gravestock 1984 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Polycoscinidae
Erugatocyathus mawsoni
Erugatocyathus mawsoni Gravestock 1984 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Bronchocyathidae
Thalamocyathus tectus
Thalamocyathus tectus archaeocyath sponge
Anthozoa
 Tabulaconida - Tabulaconidae
Flindersipora bowmani
Flindersipora bowmani Lafuste et al. 1991