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LOCATION
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Address MYPONGA
Locality
Accuracy L - low level confidence
Council Area Yankalilla Council
Polygon Type P - parcel (from DCDB)
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Geological Monument - Myponga Beach Coastline [Designated as a place of palaeontological significance]
Registered Name Geological Monument - Myponga Beach Coastline
Significance The cliffs flanking Myponga Beach provide a superb continuous coastal section of Early Cambrian (c. 540- 570 million years) fossiliferous limestones. This is an invaluable site for continuing scientific research providing, as it does, an exposure of the entire Sellick Hill Formation and thus enabling comparison with the more limited exposure of the Type Section at Sellick Hill itself. The Sellick Hill Formation and the overlying Fork Tree Limestone contain the fossil Archaeocyatha, the earliest preserved reef builder in the sea. New species have been discovered in the cliffs at Myponga Beach, allowing more accurate correlation with other Cambrian rocks in South Australia and elsewhere. This is also one of the best known localities for Hyolithes, another important early Cambrian fossil. Together with the faunal assemblage the exceptional sedimentary structures in the cliffs are significant for research into the environment of the Early Palaeozoic Era in South Australia. (HB Assessment Report)
Subject Index Landscape area - Geological Site; Landscape area - Natural Landscape; Landscape area - Palaeontological Site
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 27-SEP-1990
REFERENCE
LGA Yankalilla
State Heritage ID 14108
Heritage Number 13223
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CR 5926/704 H150700 S217,CR 5625/493 H150700 S756,CR 5625/492 H150700 S755,CR 5744/728 H150700 S770,CR 5744/729 H150700 S771

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