Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.1° S, 153.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 153.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• last interglacial period. Radiometric dating by Pickett et al. (1989)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Pickett. 1981. A Late Pleistocene coral fauna from Evans Head, N.S.W. Alcheringa 5:71-83 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84621: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.11.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Siphonaria sp. Sowerby 1824 pulmonate | |
Bivalvia | |
Septifer bilocularis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Trichomya hirsuta mussel | |
Pinna incurva Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
"Ustularca cruciata" = Barbatia (Barbatia)
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Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
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Polychaeta | |
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Anthozoa | |
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida, Mycedium elephantotus, Cyphastrea serailia, Hydnophora exesa, Favites abdita, Platygyra lamellina
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
Mycedium elephantotus Pallas 1766 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
Hydnophora exesa Pallas 1766 stony coral
Favites abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
Platygyra lamellina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
"Fungia actiniformis" = Heliofungia actiniformis, Fungia fungites
"Fungia actiniformis" = Heliofungia actiniformis Quoi and Gaimard 1833 stony coral
Fungia fungites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Goniopora cf. lobata Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral
Porites lobata Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Lobophyllia corymbosa Forskal 1775 stony coral | |
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
"Acropora cf. splendida" = Acropora valenciennesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral | |
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Seriatopora hystrix Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Turbinaria sp., "Turbinaria danae" = Turbinaria frondens
Turbinaria sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
"Turbinaria danae" = Turbinaria frondens Dana 1846 stony coral | |
"Catalaphyllia plicata" = Catalaphyllia jardinei
"Catalaphyllia plicata" = Catalaphyllia jardinei Saville Kent 1893 stony coral | |
Foraminifera | |
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808 |