Pallinup Siltstone - Bremmer Basin (Eocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (35.0° S, 117.9° E: paleocoordinates 55.4° S, 103.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pallinup Siltstone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

• No specific lithologic data is provided, but the lithostratigraphic unit name suggests a siltstone lithofacies.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, recrystallized, original aragonite, original calcite, replaced with silica

Collection methods: Collections are registered in the Western Australia Museum (WAM) and Museum of Victoria (NMV).

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2000. Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 112(1):17-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48441: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2005, edited by Amanda Doyle

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for mollusca
unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Liotiidae
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
 Trochoidea - Phasianellidae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"? Pseudoninella sp." = Angaria (Pseudoninella) Sacco 1896 snail
Bolma (Bolma) flindersi snail
Subspecies: Bolma (Bolma) flindersi darraghi
? Astralium sp. Link 1807 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochidae "indet. A" Rafinesque 1815 top snail
Trochidae "indet. B" Rafinesque 1815 top snail
Clanculus sp. Monfort 1810 top snail
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail
Calliostoma (Fautor) numapum Darragh and Kendrick 2000 top snail
Micrelenchus (Plumbelenchus) armulatus Darragh and Kendrick 2000 top snail
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
 Seguenzioidea - Chilodontaidae
Agathodonta ? sp. Cossmann 1918 snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Emarginula ? sp. Lamarck 1801 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Tornidae
"Eutinochilus otwayensis" = Teinostoma (Eutinochilus)
"Eutinochilus otwayensis" = Teinostoma (Eutinochilus) snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vitrinellidae
Circulus sp. Jeffreys 1842 snail
 Patellida - Nacellidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Arcida - Noetiidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Barbatia (Acar) gunsoni" = Acar miniature ark
Arca pseudonavicularis Tate 1886 ark
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona lenticularis Tate 1886 clam
 Arcida - Philobryidae
Limarca angustifrons Tate 1886 clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Pectinida - Dimyidae
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limidae indet., "Limea (? Gemellima) sp." = Gemellima
Limidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 file clam
"Limea (? Gemellima) sp." = Gemellima Iredale 1929 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus cf. gaderopoides McCoy 1876 scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Vulsella laevigata Tate 1886 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Epicodakia sp. Iredale 1930 clam
 Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Verticordia "sp. A" Sowerby 1844 clam
Verticordia "sp. B" Sowerby 1844 clam
 Pandorida - Clavagellidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) pixidata" = Caryocorbula pixidata
"Corbula (Caryocorbula) pixidata" = Caryocorbula pixidata Tate 1887 clam
 Cardiida - Glossidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula tatei nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Saccella) chapmani Finlay 1924 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Sarepta planiuscula Tate 1886 clam
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Gillechinus cudmorei2 heart urchin