Colville Sandstone - Lake Colville (type section) (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (29.5° S, 126.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° S, 120.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Colville Sandstone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Colville Sandstone, which unconformably overlies the Wilkinson Range beds, Ilma neds, and Precambrian metamorphoc rocks in places The Colville Sandstone grades laterally into the Nullabor Limestone, and is overlain by quaternary deposits. THICKNESS: 61 ft thick at type section, and as much as 110 ft at its thickest. AGE: Early Miocene according to Beu and Darragh (2001). Batesfordian-Balcombian according to Lowry (1970). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, calcareous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Deposited on inner margin of wide continental shelf. Probably tropical.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Calcareous sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on figures and facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Lowry (c. 1970) and Ludbrook (c. 1967). 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 70722: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.04.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for brachiopoda, bivalvia, and gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but using relatively current nomenclature and species-level designations.
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Vasticardium sp." = Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)
"Vasticardium sp." = Acrosterigma (Vasticardium) Iredale 1927 cockle
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea hyotidoidea Tate 1899 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys peroni, "Notochlamys foulcheri" = Semipallium foulcheri, "Notochlamys antecedens" = Semipallium foulcheri, Spondylus gaderopodes
Chlamys peroni Tate 1886 scallop
"Notochlamys foulcheri" = Semipallium foulcheri Tenison Woods 1865 scallop
"Notochlamys antecedens" = Semipallium foulcheri Tenison Woods 1865 scallop