Where: Western Australia, Australia (33.1° S, 124.0° E: paleocoordinates 53.6° S, 112.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toolinna Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Toolinna Limestones, which overlies the Madura Fm (Early Cretaceous) and is overlain unconformably by the Abrakurrie Limestone (Early Miocene). The Toolinna Limestone interfingers the Wilson Bluff Limestone. THICKNESS: From exposed unit with formation of about ~160-180 ft. AGE: latest Middle-Late Eocene according to Lowry (1970). Bartonian-Priabonian according to Beu and Darragh (2001). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown collector, presumably Tate (c. 1879) or Singleton (c. 1954). REPOSITORY: No repository reported in text.

Primary reference: D. C. Lowry. 1970. Geology of the Western Australian part of the Eucla basin. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 122:1-201 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70639: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.03.2007

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