Where: Western Australia, Australia (31.7° S, 128.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.2° S, 119.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wilson Bluff Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• 0-3.35 m below top of formation. An Eocene age was originally suggested for the formation. This has been confirmed by the discovery of the Late Eocene bivalve Notostrea lubra, and Australanthus longianus, an echinoid of the same age. Foraminiferal assemblages suggest that the uppermost part is Late Eocene and the base is Middle Eocene (Li et al., 1996)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal, white, cherty/siliceous packstone
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 152507: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2013, edited by Marko Manojlovic
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Liothyrella subcarnea Tate 1880
Liothyrella bulbosa Tate 1880 | |
"Stethothyris pectoralis" = Epacrothyris pectoralis, Aliquantula insolita
"Stethothyris pectoralis" = Epacrothyris pectoralis Tate 1880
Aliquantula insolita Tate 1880 | |
Aldingia furculifera Tate 1880 |