Where: Western Australia, Australia (31.8° S, 127.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 121.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Abrakurrie Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Abrakurrie Limestone, which unconformably overlies the Wilson Bluff Limestone (Late Eocene) and is overlain unconformably by the Nullabor Limestone (Middle Miocene). THICKNESS: From exposed unit with formation of about ~70 ft. AGE: Latest Early Miocene (Burdigalian)/Longfordian Australian stage according to Beu and Darragh (2001). Longfordian according to Lowry (1970). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown collector, presumably Tate (c. 1879) or Ludbrook (c. 1967). REPOSITORY: No repository reported in text.
Primary reference: D. C. Lowry. 1970. Geology of the Western Australian part of the Eucla basin. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 122:1-201 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70714: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.04.2007, edited by Amanda Doyle
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Gillechinus cudmorei heart urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail | |
Harpa sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
Fasciolaria sp. Lamarck 1799 tulip snail | |
Conus cf. cuspidatus Tate 1890 cone shell | |
"Cypraea toxorhyncha" = Zoila platypyga, "Cypraea gabrieli" = Zoila gigas, Cypraea sp., "Cypraea cf. archeri" = Lyncina (Austrocypraea) archeri, "Cypraea cf. scalena" = Lyncina (Austrocypraea) scalena
"Cypraea toxorhyncha" = Zoila platypyga McCoy 1876 cowry
"Cypraea gabrieli" = Zoila gigas McCoy 1867 cowry
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry
"Cypraea cf. archeri" = Lyncina (Austrocypraea) archeri Tenison-Woods 1876 cowry
"Cypraea cf. scalena" = Lyncina (Austrocypraea) scalena Tate 1890 cowry | |
Bivalvia | |
Eotrigonia semiundulata Jenkins 1865 clam | |
"Spissatella cf. maudensis" = Eucrassatella maudensis
"Spissatella cf. maudensis" = Eucrassatella maudensis Pritchard 1903 clam | |
? Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam | |
Dosinia (Hina) cainozoica Tenison Woods 1877 venus clam | |
Pinctada cf. crassicardia pearl oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea hyotidoidea Tate 1899 oyster | |
"Pecten murrayanus" = Annachlamys murrayana, "Lentipecten victoriensis" = Victoripecten victoriensis, Chlamys peroni, "Notochlamys foulcheri" = Semipallium foulcheri, "Notochlamys antecedens" = Semipallium foulcheri, Spondylus gaderopoides
"Pecten murrayanus" = Annachlamys murrayana Tate 1886 scallop
"Lentipecten victoriensis" = Victoripecten victoriensis Crespin 1950 scallop
Chlamys peroni Tate 1886 scallop
"Notochlamys foulcheri" = Semipallium foulcheri Tenison Woods 1865 scallop
"Notochlamys antecedens" = Semipallium foulcheri Tenison Woods 1865 scallop
Spondylus gaderopoides McCoy 1876 scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratula insolita, "Terebratula tateana" = Acrobrochus tateana
"Terebratula tateana" = Acrobrochus tateana Tenison-Woods 1878 | |
Murravia catinuliformis Tate 1896 | |