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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Arcosterigma reeveanum
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Monilea callifera Lamarck 1822
Clanculus (Clanculus) atropurpureus Gould 1849
Tectus pyramis (Born 1778)
Granata imbricata Lamarck 1816
Chrysostoma zeus
Trochus hanleyanus Reeve 1843
Thalotia (Prothalotia) cf. flindersi
Pseudostomatella (Stromatolina) rufescens
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo (Marmarostoma) intercostalis (Menke 1829)
Gastropoda - Thaididae
Drupa (Cronia) avellana
Gastropoda - Patellida - Lottiidae
Patelloida alticostata Angas 1865
Gastropoda - Patellidae
Patella (Scutellastra) laticostata Blainville 1825
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Smaragdia (Smaragdella) roseopicta
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Clypeomorus bifasciata (Sowerby 1855)
original and current combination Cerithium bifasciatum
Rhinoclavis fasciata Bruguière 1792
Rhinoclavis bituberculata Sowerby 1855
Gastropoda - Diastomatidae
Obtortio sp. Hedley 1899
Gastropoda - Dialidae
Diala lauta Adams 1862
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Elachorbis tatei
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Pyrene scripta Lamarck 1822
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus dorreensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Syrinx aruanus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Melo miltonis
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Strombus (Euprotomus) vomer Röding 1798
Subspecies: S. (E.) vomer iredalei
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Musculista glaberrima
Septifer bilocularis (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Dendostrea folium (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara trapezia Deshayes 1839
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sordida
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Fragum (Fragum) carinatum
Fragum (Afrocardium) erugatum (Tate 1889)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Leptomya psittacus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina (Pharaonella) perna Spengler 1798
recombined as Tonganaella perna
Macoma (Scissulina) dispar (Conrad 1837)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Felaniella sp. Dall 1899
synonym of Diplodonta
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus (Ventricolaria) toreuma
synonym of Globivenus
Dosinia incisa
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)
Marcia fumigata
Tapes ? dorsatus Lamarck 1818
Callista (Costacallista) planatella
Circe sulcata
Circe scripta (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Circe (Circe) scripta
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra (Coelomactra) cuvieri
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Phaxa (Ensiculus) cultellus Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Epicodakia bella
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Megacardita incrassata
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 32.0° South, 115.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.0° South, 115.8° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 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:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-11 21:23:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]