Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.1° S, 115.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° S, 114.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unconformably overlies Albian-Cenomanian Osborne Fm (Cockbain 1980). Minor transitional units (Balme 1980) separate the top of the Ascot Fm from both the Bassendean Sand and the Guildford Fm (Low 1971; Playford et al. 1976) THICKNESS: Approximately 20 m in figure well logs. AGE: Extended discussion of age in text (Kendrick et al., 1991), but generally regarded as Late Pliocene on the basis of molluscan and foraminiferal biostratigraphy, well-dated presumed correlatives and the age of bounding units. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From "older" Ascot Formation, presumably lower in the stratigraphic succession, or encountered in wells further up dip.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, brown, gray, yellow, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Faunal list is a composite of decades of collecting effort, including that reported by Darragh and Kendrick (1971), Kendrick (1981), Ponder (1985), and Kendrick unpublished data. REPOSITORY: Collection assembled from material reposited in Western Australian Museum (WAM).

Primary reference: G. W. Kendrick, K.-H. Wyrwoll, and B.J. Szabo. 1991. Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 10:419-439 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63352: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.08.2006

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