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, cherty/siliceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by T.A. Darragh, G.W. Kendrick, K. Ayyasami in 1996; reposited in the WAM
• Repository: other specimens at Museum Victoria (NMV)
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2010. Eocene molluscs from the Merlinleigh Sandstone, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 26:23-41 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179835: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turbo (Euninella) cf. hamiltonensis Harris 1897 snail | |
? Tugali sp. Gray 1843 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia capricornis Darragh and Kendrick 2010 clam | |
Teredinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 clam | |
Dosinia (Kereia) numerosissima n. sp. Darragh and Kendrick 2010 venus clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Glycymeris cf. cainozoica Tenison Woods 1877 clam | |
Cucullaea cf. adelaidensis Tate 1886 clam | |
Spondylus cf. gaderopoides McCoy 1876 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Aturia clarkei Teichert 1944 nautiloid |