Tantabiddi Member, Bundera Calcarenite, Mangrove Bay and Yardie Creek: Late Pleistocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima lima (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara antiquata (Linnaeus 1758)
Arca ventricosa Lamarck 1819
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Pupa cf. solidula Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus lividus Bruguière 1792
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Homalocantha sp. Mörch 1852
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Pyrene scripta Lamarck 1822
Pyrene turturina (Lamarck 1822)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Cypraea cicercula Linnaeus 1758
Cypraea helvola Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Cymatium (Septa) pileare (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Bursidae
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium echinatum Lamarck 1822
Rhinoclavis fasciata Bruguière 1792
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Tectus pyramis (Born 1778)
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Gastropoda - Thaididae
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 21.9° South, 114.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Formation:Bundera Calcarenite Member:Tantabiddi
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: Late Pleistocene. Extended discussion of age in text (Kendrick et al., 1991). U-series dates obtained for the Tantabiddi Mbr have given ages of 111, 120, and 138 +/- 5-7 ka BP (van de Graaf et al. 1976). U-series dates from this study of coral aslo yield similar ages, from 108-141 +/- 5-10 ka BP.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",medium,shelly/skeletal poorly lithified calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Cross-bedded, medium-textured, calcarenite, containing shell horizons and coral debris. LITHIFICATION: Presumed to be poorly-lithified given comments about moderate induration and calcretes in bounding units.
Environment:foreshore
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Accumulated on beach environment, bounded by eolian units.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
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:63356
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-08-11 21:37:48 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-11 21:37:47
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]