Late Pleistocene (Stage 5), Perth Basin: Late Pleistocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Septifer bilocularis (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara trapezia Deshayes 1839
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Dendostrea folium (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
unclassified
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Listed as Dosinia (Pectunculus) incisa; entered as D. incisa to avoid problems with Pectunculus homonyms (Glycymerididae)
Dosinia sculpta (Hanley 1845)
Listed as Dosinia (Pectunculus) sculpta; entered as D. incisa to avoid problems with Pectunculus homonyms (Glycymerididae)
Tapes ? dorsatus Lamarck 1818
Circe scripta (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Felaniella sp. Dall 1899
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Granata imbricata Lamarck 1816
Monilea callifera Lamarck 1822
Tectus pyramis (Born 1778)
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Pyrene scripta Lamarck 1822
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Gastropoda - Dialidae
Diala lauta Adams 1862
Gastropoda - Diastomatidae
Obtortio sp. Hedley 1899
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Rhinoclavis fasciata Bruguière 1792
Clypeomorus bifasciata (Sowerby 1855)
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Gastropoda - Thaididae
Gastropoda - Patellidae
Gastropoda - Patellida - Lottiidae
Gastropoda - Neritidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 32.0° South, 115.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: "Last Interglacial" of Late Pleistocene. Extended discussion of age in text (Kendrick et al., 1991), but generally regarded as Late Pleistocene on the basis of published U-series dates, ESR, and amino acid racemization results, and good preservational state.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated in text, presumably a calcarenite or sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Presumed to be unlithified given age and preservation state.
Environment:coastal indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Accumulated in shallow water, siliciclastic environments.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Faunal list is a composite of decades of collecting effort, including that reported by Darragh and Kendrick (1971), Kendrick (1981), Ponder (1985), and Kendrick unpublished data. REPOSITORY: Collection assembled from material reposited in Western Australian Museum (WAM).
Taxonomic list comments:COMPLETENESS: Not exhaustive (stated to be selective, presumably on the basis of biogeographic utility of taxa), but certainly comprehensive. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but nomenclature appears modern with extensive subgeneric and species-level assignments.
Metadata
Database number:63355
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-11 21:23:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-11 21:23:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
18220. G. W. Kendrick, K.-H. Wyrwoll, and B.J. Szabo. 1991. Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 10:419-439 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]