Where: Western Australia, Australia (34.8° S, 116.8° E: paleocoordinates 54.9° S, 102.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pallinup Siltstone Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• The Werillup Formation is regarded as late Middle Eocene. This is supported by the presence of the Dasycladcian algae, Larvana and Neomeris (Cockbain 1969) and the foraminifer Asterocylinia (Cockbain 1967). The Pallinup Siltstone is of similar age, again from the presence of the nautiloid Aturia clarkei and foraminifer reported by Backhouse (1969), Cockbain (1968a) and Quilty (1969). The foraminifers correspond with Ludbrook's "Tortachilla microfauna" (Cockbain 1968c).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, white, cherty/siliceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
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 176275: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.02.2016, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
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Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Vaceletia progenitor n. sp.
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Gastropoda | |
Willungia ovulatella Tate 1890 snail | |
Zoila viathomsoni n. sp.
Zoila viathomsoni n. sp. Darragh 2011 cowry | |
Semitrivia pompholugota Tate 1890 snail |