Also known as Mt. Michael; MM b3
Where: South Australia, Australia (31.0° S, 138.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.7° N, 165.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: White Sea other zone, Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, medium, white sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
• Museum repository: South Australian Museum (SAM)
Primary reference: M. L. Droser, J. G. Gehling, and S. R. Jensen. 2006. Assemblage palaeoecology of the Ediacara biota: The unabridged edition?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 232:131-147 [M. Laflamme/M. Laflamme]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89838: authorized by Marc Laflamme, entered by Marc Laflamme on 15.06.2009, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Dickinsonia costata Sprigg 1947
Dickinsonia lissa Wade 1972 | |
Conomedusites sp. Glaessner and Wade 1966 | |
Tribrachidium sp. Glaessner 1959 | |
Spriggina sp. Glaessner 1958 | |
Coronacollina acula | |
Coronacollina acula1 Clites et al. 2012 | |
Funisia dorothea | |
Funisia dorothea2 Droser and Gehling 2008 | |
Aspidella | |
Aspidella sp. Billings 1872 | |
Phyllozoon sp. Jenkins and Gehling 1978 | |
Eoandromeda octobrachiata | |
Eoandromeda octobrachiata3 Tang et al. 2008 | |
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Intrites | |
Intrites sp. Bekker 1992 |