Where: Western Australia, Australia (34.7° S, 118.4° E: paleocoordinates 54.9° S, 104.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pallinup Siltstone Member (Werillup Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• The Werillup Formation is regarded as late Middle Eocene. This is supported by the presence of the Dasycladcian algae, Larvana and Neomeris (Cockbain 1969) and the foraminifer Asterocylinia(Cockbain 1967). The Pallinup Siltstone is of similar age, again from the presence of the nautiloid Aturia clarkei and foraminifer reported by Backhouse (1969), Cockbain (1968a) and Quilty (1969). The foraminifers correspond with Ludbrook's "Tortachilla microfauna" (Cockbain 1968c).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, white, cherty/siliceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the WAM
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 152479: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 22.11.2013, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Aliquantula insolita Tate 1880 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Hedecardium moniletectum" = Hedecardium (Hedecardium) moniletectum
"Hedecardium moniletectum" = Hedecardium (Hedecardium) moniletectum Tate 1887 cockle |