0.5 km west of Nanarup Lime Quarry (Eocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (35.0° S, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 57.4° S, 102.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nanarup Limestone Member (Werrilup Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 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 Nanarup Limestone Member has also been also determined as Late Eocene from the presence of the nautiloids Aturia clarkei, Teichertia prora and Cimonia felix (Cockbain 1968 b, c) as well as foraminifers reported by Quilty (1969).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, white, yellow limestone

• (Nanarup Limestone) Quilty (1981) suggested that, due to the lack of sorting and presence of complete echinoids and articulated brachiopods, current activity was negligible at the time of deposition. He further suggested that from the spatial distribution of the limestone immediately 'east of present-day granite hills' that it "accumulated in the lee of islands, protected from the easterly-moving currents" and detritus. He proposed a maximum depth of deposition of 35 m.
• Yellow-white friable bryozoan limestone.

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 152500: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 24.11.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Liothyrella labiata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina christopheri
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
"Stethothyris pectoralis" = Epacrothyris pectoralis
"Stethothyris pectoralis" = Epacrothyris pectoralis Tate 1880