Nilpena (Ediacaran of Australia)

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

• See Gehling, J. G. 2000. Environmental interpretation and a sequence stratigraphic framework for the terminal Proterozoic Ediacara Member within the Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia. Precambrian Research 100:65-95.

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
  -
 Bilateria -
Dickinsonia costata Sprigg 1947
Dickinsonia lissa Wade 1972
 Tetraradialomorpha -
Conomedusites sp. Glaessner and Wade 1966
 Triradialomorpha -
Tribrachidium sp. Glaessner 1959
 Bilaterialomorpha -
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
 Erniettomorpha -
Phyllozoon sp. Jenkins and Gehling 1978
Eoandromeda octobrachiata
  -
Eoandromeda octobrachiata3 Tang et al. 2008
 Eumetazoa -
Parvancorina minchami Glaessner 1958
[entered as Parvanchorina sp.]
Intrites
  -
Intrites sp. Bekker 1992