Also known as Loc. 18 (McNamara and Kendrick 1994)
Where: Western Australia, Australia (20.8° S, 115.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 110.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed formation. Late Pleistocene deposits unconformably overly Miocene rocks of the Poivre Fm. THICKNESS: 2 m thick in places. AGE: First determined to be Pleistocene by Smith (1962); no justification stated in text for assignment to Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Approximately 2.5 m above modern high water mark.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTORS: Collected by authors, K.J. McNamara and G.W. Kendrick. REPOSITORY: Western Australian Museum (WAM)
Primary reference: K.J. McNamara and G.W. Kendrick. 1994. Cenozoic Molluscs and Echinoids of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 51 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63318: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cypraea annulus" = Monetaria annulus
"Cypraea annulus" = Monetaria annulus Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
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Tectus pyramis Born 1778 top snail
Hybochelus cf. cancellatus Krauss 1848 top snail | |
Phasianella ? sp. Lamarck 1804 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Fragum (Fragum) unedo Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Divaricella ornata clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora "sp. A" Oken 1815 stony coral |