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
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
Bivalvia | |
"Vasticardium sp." = Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)
"Vasticardium sp." = Acrosterigma (Vasticardium) Iredale 1927 cockle | |
Ostrea hyotidoidea Tate 1899 oyster | |
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
Spondylus gaderopodes scallop |