Cy Creek [Miria Marl] (Cretaceous of Australia)

Also known as C-Y Creek

Where: Western Australia, Australia (22.9° S, 114.1° E: paleocoordinates 50.0° S, 100.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miria Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, calcareous sandstone

• low-energy marine shelf
• cream colored calcarenite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by T. Darraghs, G. Kendrick

• 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 153527: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 25.12.2013, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Bouchardiidae
Bouchardiella cretacea Etheridge 1913
Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Calanticidae
Calantica (Scillaelepas) cardabia n. sp. Buckeridge 1983 barnacle