BT2 - Mount Charles (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.7° S, 126.2° E: paleocoordinates 59.0° S, 87.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Aptian; justification not stated. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hunt Oil Co. in 1963

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

• COLLECTOR: Hunt Oil Co.,April, 1963. REPOSITORY: Hunt Oil Co. or Geological Survey of Australia.

Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1967. Lower Cretaceous Mollusca of the Great Artesian Basin Type in the Gibson Desert, Central Western Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology, and Geophysics Bulletin 75:1-38 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162300: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for mollusc fauna. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but species-resolution identifications.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Pseudavicula anomala
Pseudavicula anomala Moore 1870 scallop