Unspecified localities [Toolonga Calcilutite] (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

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• shallow marine open shelf
• GENERAL LITHOLOGY: yellow-white massive chalk, with phosphatic nodules and chert nodules.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the WAM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• REPOSITORY: Museum of Western Australia.

Primary reference: J. S. Buckeridge. 1983. Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 50:1-151 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160650: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Calanticidae
Calantica (Scillaelepas) ginginensis Etheridge 1913 barnacle
Calantica (Scillaelepas) kendricki Buckeridge 1983 barnacle