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 T.A. Darragh, G.W. Kendrick in 2005; reposited in the WAM
• Repository: Museum Victoria, Melbourne (NMV) for some specimens
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 179825: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Sarepta planiuscula Tate 1886 clam | |
Limopsis chapmani Singleton 1932 clam | |
Tucetona lenticularis Tate 1886 clam | |
cf. Talochlamys eyrei Tate 1886 scallop | |
? Plicacesta sp. Vokes 1963 file clam | |
Vulsella cf. laevigata Tate 1886 oyster | |
Solamen (Exosiperna) aff. globularis Tate 1886 crenella | |
Dosinia (Dosinia) multilamellata Tate 1887 venus clam
cf. Fossacallista tatei Cossmann 1920 venus clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Caryocorbula pixidata Tate 1887 clam | |
Epicodakia sp. Iredale 1930 clam | |
Glyptoactis (Fasciculicardia) cf. latissima Tate 1886 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni Ludbrook 1956 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithiella sp. Verrill 1882 snail | |
? Brocchitas sp. Finlay 1927 snail
Dennantia aldingensis Tate 1888 snail | |
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides Tate 1888 volute
Lyria lamellatoplicata n. sp. Darragh and Kendrick 2008 volute | |
Marginella "sp. A" Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Murexsul sp. Iredale 1915 murex snail | |
Parasyngenochilus cf. angustior Long 1981 turrid
? Gemmula sp. Weinkauff 1875 turrid | |
Cochlespira sp. Conrad 1865 snail | |
Mauidrillia cf. aldingensis Powell 1944 snail | |
Conorbis sp. Swainson 1840 cone shell | |
Mitridae "indet. B" Swainson 1831 mitre shell | |
Turbinellidae indet. Swainson 1840 snail | |
Gemmoliva cf. adelaidae Tate 1889 snail | |
Gracilispira cf. ligata Tate 1889 snail | |
Galeodea sp. Link 1807 snail | |
? Margineulima sp. Cossmann 1888 snail | |
Tenagodus sp. Guettard 1770 snail | |
Zeacolpus bartoni n. sp.
Zeacolpus bartoni n. sp. Darragh and Kendrick 2008 turret shell | |
Cerithium wilya n. sp.
Cerithium wilya n. sp. Darragh and Kendrick 2008 cerith snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 |