Where: Western Australia, Australia (31.9° S, 127.4° E: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 126.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Roe Calcarenite Formation, Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• Late Pliocene based on molluscan fauna and Sr isotopes [Early Pleistocene following lowering of Plio-Pleistocene boundary]. Basal 0.4 m carbonate sand.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the WAM

Primary reference: R. S. Craig. 1999. A new Pliocene terebratulid brachiopod from the Roe Calcarenite, Eucla Basin of southern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19:267-275 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152532: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2013, edited by Pete Wagner

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