Frenchman Peak, Cape Le Grand National Park (Eocene of Australia)

Where: West Australia, Australia (34.0° S, 122.2° E: paleocoordinates 54.4° S, 110.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pallinup Siltstone Formation (Plantagenet Group), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Indicated as late Eocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, cherty/siliceous siltstone

• Depth estimates for the Pallinup Siltstone are up to 76m but this is too muach according to Pickett (1982)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Pickett. 1982. Vaceletia progenitor, the first Tertiary sphinctozoan (Porifera). Alcheringa 6(4):241-247 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197322: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 03.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Dictyoceratida - Vaceletiidae
Vaceletia progenitor
Vaceletia progenitor Pickett 1982 demosponge