Where: Western Australia, Australia (24.3° S, 115.2° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 100.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Merlinleigh Sandstone Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• From the presence of foraminifers Maslinella chapmani Glaessner and Wade, Operculina sp., Crespinina kingscotensis Wade and Rotalia sp., Cockbain (1981) confirmed a Late Eocene age for the Merlinleigh Sandstone, correlated in part with the Late Eocene Giralia Calcarenite of the Carnarvon Basin. Giralia Calcarenite later assigned Middle Eocene (Lutetian) age, Zone P12 of Berggren & Miller (1988).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with silica

Collected by T.A. Darragh, G.W. Kendrick, K.J. McNamara in 1979; reposited in the WAM

Primary reference: K. J. McNamara and J. K. Scott. 1983. A new species of Banksia (Proteaceae) from the Eocene Merlinleigh Sandstone of the Kennedy Range, Western Australia. Alcheringa 7:185-193 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179831: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2016

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