Meanarra Hill (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (27.7° S, 114.2° E: paleocoordinates 54.2° S, 95.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toolonga Calcilutite Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, massive, nodular, phosphatic, white, yellow, cherty/siliceous chalk

• shallow marine open shelf
• yellow-white massive, usually rather coherent rock with a base of phosphatic nodules and chert nodules in the upper half

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museum of Western Australia

Primary reference: R. S. Craig. 1999. Late Cretaceous brachiopods of the Perth and Carnarvon Basins, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum (19)413-442 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153505: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 25.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Kingenidae
Kingena mesembrina Etheridge 1913
 Terebratulida - Bouchardiidae
Bouchardiella cretacea Etheridge 1913
 Terebratulida - Inopinatarculidae
 Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
Gisilina ovata Etheridge 1913
 Terebratulida -
 Rhynchonellida - Notosariidae
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae