Lucky Bay (Eocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (34.0° S, 122.2° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 110.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pallinup Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

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 205818: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 23.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Willungia ovulatella Tate 1890 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Tanea hamiltonensis Tenison Woods 1879 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Zeacolpus bartoni Darragh and Kendrick 2008 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"? Pseudovertagus sp." = Clava (Pseudovertagus) Vignal 1904 cerith snail
Jetwoodsia nullarborica Tate 1879 cerith snail
Orthochetus pagoda Chapman and Crespin 1934 cerith snail