Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian 'Pararaia bunyerooensis' Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
A diverse, well preserved fossil assemblage consisting of micro- and macro-sized molluscs, sponge spicules, chancelloriid sclerites, hyolithelminth tubes, tommotiids, protoconodonts and lobopodian sclerites from the Third Plain Creek Member (Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone) of the Mernmerna Formation in...
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ftunivnewengland:oai:rune.une.edu.au:1959.11/6652 2023-08-27T04:05:33+02:00 Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian 'Pararaia bunyerooensis' Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia Topper, Timothy P Brock, Glenn A Skovsted, Christian B Paterson, John R School of Environmental and Rural Science orcid:0000-0003-2947-3912 2009 https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6652 en eng Geological Society of Australia Inc https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6652 une:6811 http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=916003534391605;res=IELHSS Animal Systematics and Taxonomy Stratigraphy (incl Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy) Palaeontology (incl Palynology) Journal Article 2009 ftunivnewengland 2023-08-10T19:11:31Z A diverse, well preserved fossil assemblage consisting of micro- and macro-sized molluscs, sponge spicules, chancelloriid sclerites, hyolithelminth tubes, tommotiids, protoconodonts and lobopodian sclerites from the Third Plain Creek Member (Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone) of the Mernmerna Formation in the eastern Flinders Ranges, Arrowie Basin, South Australia is described. Molluscs are represented by hyoliths, helcionellids and a single bivalve species. The enigmatic helcionellid taxon Marocella mira is formally described for the first time from the Arrowie Basin and forms the basis of a new helcionellid family, the Marocellidae. Sclerites of the lobopodian Microdictyon jinshaense Zhang and Aldridge are described for the first time outside South China. Whilst many of the taxa are biostratigraphically long ranging, several species in the assemblage facilitate correlation across the Arrowie Basin, with the neighbouring Stansbury Basin to the south, and also with faunas from other Cambrian palaeocontinents, including Antarctica, South China and Laurentia. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Research UNE - University of New England at Armidale, NSW Australia Flinders ENVELOPE(-66.667,-66.667,-69.267,-69.267) Mira ENVELOPE(10.500,10.500,-70.417,-70.417) |
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Animal Systematics and Taxonomy Stratigraphy (incl Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy) Palaeontology (incl Palynology) |
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Animal Systematics and Taxonomy Stratigraphy (incl Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy) Palaeontology (incl Palynology) Topper, Timothy P Brock, Glenn A Skovsted, Christian B Paterson, John R School of Environmental and Rural Science orcid:0000-0003-2947-3912 Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian 'Pararaia bunyerooensis' Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia |
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Animal Systematics and Taxonomy Stratigraphy (incl Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy) Palaeontology (incl Palynology) |
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A diverse, well preserved fossil assemblage consisting of micro- and macro-sized molluscs, sponge spicules, chancelloriid sclerites, hyolithelminth tubes, tommotiids, protoconodonts and lobopodian sclerites from the Third Plain Creek Member (Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone) of the Mernmerna Formation in the eastern Flinders Ranges, Arrowie Basin, South Australia is described. Molluscs are represented by hyoliths, helcionellids and a single bivalve species. The enigmatic helcionellid taxon Marocella mira is formally described for the first time from the Arrowie Basin and forms the basis of a new helcionellid family, the Marocellidae. Sclerites of the lobopodian Microdictyon jinshaense Zhang and Aldridge are described for the first time outside South China. Whilst many of the taxa are biostratigraphically long ranging, several species in the assemblage facilitate correlation across the Arrowie Basin, with the neighbouring Stansbury Basin to the south, and also with faunas from other Cambrian palaeocontinents, including Antarctica, South China and Laurentia. |
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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Topper, Timothy P Brock, Glenn A Skovsted, Christian B Paterson, John R School of Environmental and Rural Science orcid:0000-0003-2947-3912 |
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Topper, Timothy P Brock, Glenn A Skovsted, Christian B Paterson, John R School of Environmental and Rural Science orcid:0000-0003-2947-3912 |
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Topper, Timothy P |
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Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian 'Pararaia bunyerooensis' Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia |
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Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian 'Pararaia bunyerooensis' Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia |
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Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian 'Pararaia bunyerooensis' Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia |
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Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian 'Pararaia bunyerooensis' Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia |
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Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian 'Pararaia bunyerooensis' Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia |
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shelly fossils from the lower cambrian 'pararaia bunyerooensis' zone, flinders ranges, south australia |
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Geological Society of Australia Inc |
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2009 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6652 |
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ENVELOPE(-66.667,-66.667,-69.267,-69.267) ENVELOPE(10.500,10.500,-70.417,-70.417) |
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Flinders Mira |
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Flinders Mira |
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Antarc* Antarctica |
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Antarc* Antarctica |
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https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6652 une:6811 |
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