Burnham Limestone - Fleurieu Peninsula: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Soritidae
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Marginopora vertebralis
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Gastropoda
- Batillariidae
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Batillaria (Batillariella) estuarina
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Microcolus dunkeri
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Harpidae
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Austroharpa kendricki
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Cantharidus (Phasianotrochus) apicinus
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Monilea euclensis
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mesodesmatidae
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Anapella variabilis
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Brachidontes cf. suberosus
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys (Equichlamys) bifrons
(Lamarck 1819)
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| recombined as Equichlamys bifrons | ||||||||||
| Subspecies: C. (E.) bifrons subbifrons | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Limatula ludbrookae
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | South Australia |
| Coordinates: | 35.3° South, 138.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.6° South, 137.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Burham Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Burham Limestone, lateral equivalent to the Point Allen Fm. Of limited extent in distribution and deposited on irregular surfaces. The Point Allen Fm and Burnham Limestone rest unconformably on Hallett Cove Sandstone and its equivalents. THICKNESS: From a few centimetres to two metres. AGE: Early Pleistocene based on biostratigraphy and the age of bounding units. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From throughout the formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal poorly lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Soft, powdery carbonate rock, effected by surface calcrete. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified based on above comments and figured specimens. | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Molluscan fauna typical of intertidal zones of estuaries, tidal inlets, or the sandy or muddy flats of sheltered bays. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast,mold/impression,original aragonite,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: The list is a composite made by many collectors, mainly Daily (1966), and the author. REPOSITORY: National Museum of Victoria (NMV) and Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for bivalvia and gastropoda. Other groups not mentioned as present. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, using modern nomenclature and subgeneric classification. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 63380 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate,micropaleontology |
| Created: | 2006-08-12 20:27:18 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-12 20:27:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18223. | N.H. Ludbrook. 1983. Molluscan faunas of the Early Pleistocene Point Allen Formation and Burnham limestone, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 107(1):37-49 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |