Where: Western Australia, Australia (27.8° S, 114.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° S, 99.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)
• Collectively, the planktonic foraminifers indicate that the newly discovered site belongs within the P13 to P16 zonal range (40.5 – 34.0 Ma BKSA95).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, cherty/siliceous mudstone and poorly lithified, cherty/siliceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original silica, replaced with silica
Collected by David Barton in 2000-2001; reposited in the WAM
• Acquired over the period 2000-2001 and presented to the Western Australian Museum in 2005.
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2008. Silicified Eocene molluscs from the Lower Murchison district, southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24:217-246 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179823: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Caryocorbula pixidata Tate 1887 clam | |
Epicodakia sp. Iredale 1930 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni Ludbrook 1956 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Euspirocrommium sp. Sacco 1890 moon snail | |
Cerithiella sp. Verrill 1882 snail | |
Notoseila sp. Finlay 1926 snail | |
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides, Lyria lamellatoplicata, Notovoluta capitonica, Notopeplum protorhysum
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides Tate 1888 volute
Lyria lamellatoplicata Darragh and Kendrick 2008 volute
Notovoluta capitonica Darragh 1989 volute
Notopeplum protorhysum Tate 1889 volute | |
Marginella "sp. B" Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
? Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Mitridae "indet. A" Swainson 1831 mitre shell | |
Xenophora cf. tatei Harris 1897 carrier shell | |
Zeacolpus bartoni Darragh and Kendrick 2008 turret shell | |
Cerithium wilya Darragh and Kendrick 2008 cerith snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 |