Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 120.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Abrakurrie Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Abrakurrie Limestone, which regionally unconformably overlies the Wilson Bluff Limestone (Late Eocene) and underlies the Nullabor Limestone (Middle Miocene) in the Eucla Basin. AGE: Early Miocene (Longfordian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From multiple localities and horizons, hence assigned to a "formation" scale.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Multiple, unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: Various repositories, including the Museum of Victoria, Melborne, Victoria, Australia.
Primary reference: A. G. Beu and T.A. Darragh. 2001. Revision of southern Australian Cenozoic fossil Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Proceedings of the Royal Sociey of Victoria 113(1):1-205 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72186: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Abrachlamys toolinensis n. sp., Talochlamys sp., Talochlamys multilamellata, ? Notochlamys squamundata
Abrachlamys toolinensis n. sp. scallop
Talochlamys sp. Iredale 1929 scallop
Talochlamys multilamellata Beu and Darragh 2001 scallop
? Notochlamys squamundata Beu and Darragh 2001 scallop | |