PL 3166. Roe Plains, 2.5 km north of Hampton Microwave Repeater Tower (Pliocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 127.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° S, 126.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Roe Calcarenite Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Basal 0.4 meters of carbonate sand

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous sandstone

• carbonate sand

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T.A. Darragh, M. Archer & G.W. Kendrick in 1969/03/05; reposited in the WAM

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 2011. A revision of the Australian fossil species of Zoila (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68:1-28 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176028: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata, Zoila campestris n. sp., Zoila fodinata n. sp.
Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata Iredale 1916 cowry
Zoila campestris n. sp. Darragh 2011 cowry
Zoila fodinata n. sp. Darragh 2011 cowry