Northcliffe, east (Eocene of Australia)
Where: Western Australia, Australia (34.6° S, 116.3° E: paleocoordinates 54.7° S, 101.5° E)
When: Pallinup Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone
• Deposition is considered to have taken place under tropical to warm temperate conditions in shallow water embayments in a sheltered environment owing to the sheltering effects of shoals and islands.
• The Pallinup Formation is a heterogeneous unit of spiculite, spongolite, terrigenous sandstone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 2017. Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 32:29-100 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 205817: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 23.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Tenagodus ? occlusus Tenison Woods 1877 snail | |
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Orthochetus pagoda Chapman and Crespin 1934 cerith snail | |