Toolinna Cove (Eocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.7° S, 125.0° E: paleocoordinates 53.3° S, 114.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toolinna Limestone Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• The macrofauna is similar to that found in the Wilson Bluff Limestone and therefore the age is determined as Late Eocene (Playford et al., 1975). Li et al. (1996) suggested that it is Middle Eocene to Early Miocene and that it could belong to the Abrakurrie Limestone due to the benthic foraminiferal fauna that differs to the Wilson Bluff Limestone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• The Toolinna Limestone consists of "medium to very coarse grained well sorted current bedded, bryozoan calcarenite" (Playford et al., 1975). The type section is 55 m high and found on the cliffs at Toolinna Cove in the southwest corner of the Eucla Basin.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Survey of Western Australia

Primary reference: R. S. Craig. 2001. The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of the Bremer and Eucla Basins, southwest Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20:199-236 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152468: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 22.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Kingenidae
Aldingia furculifera
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Victorithyris tateana, Diedrothyris plicata, Magadinella woodsiana
Diedrothyris plicata Richardson 1980
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Liothyrella subcarnea, Liothyrella bulbosa