Tantabiddi Member, Bundera Calcarenite, Mangrove Bay and Yardie Creek (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (21.9° S, 114.0° E: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 114.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tantabiddi Member (Bundera Calcarenite Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• AGE: Late Pleistocene. Extended discussion of age in text (Kendrick et al., 1991). U-series dates obtained for the Tantabiddi Mbr have given ages of 111, 120, and 138 +/- 5-7 ka BP (van de Graaf et al. 1976). U-series dates from this study of coral aslo yield similar ages, from 108-141 +/- 5-10 ka BP.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified, medium-grained, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Accumulated on beach environment, bounded by eolian units.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Cross-bedded, medium-textured, calcarenite, containing shell horizons and coral debris. LITHIFICATION: Presumed to be poorly-lithified given comments about moderate induration and calcretes in bounding units.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Faunal list is a composite of decades of collecting effort, including that reported by Darragh and Kendrick (1971), Kendrick (1981), Ponder (1985), and Kendrick unpublished data. REPOSITORY: Collection assembled from material reposited in Western Australian Museum (WAM).

Primary reference: G. W. Kendrick, K.-H. Wyrwoll, and B.J. Szabo. 1991. Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 10:419-439 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63356: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Not exhaustive (stated to be selective, presumably on the basis of biogeographic utility of taxa), but certainly comprehensive. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but nomenclature appears modern with extensive subgeneric and species-level assignments.
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Tectus pyramis Born 1778 top snail
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail
 Ptenoglossa - Thaididae
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium "sp. A" Bruguière 1789 cerith snail
Cerithium "sp. B" Bruguière 1789 cerith snail
Cerithium echinatum Lamarck 1822 cerith snail
"Cerithium novaehollandiae" = Cerithium (Cerithium) novaehollandiae Adams 1855 cerith snail
Rhinoclavis fasciata Bruguière 1792 cerith snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva sp. Bruguière 1789 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Pyrene turturina Lamarck 1822 snail
Pyrene testudinaria Link 1807 snail
Pyrene scripta Lamarck 1822 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus terebra cone shell
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
Conus lividus Bruguière 1792 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra areolata Link 1807 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Homalocantha sp. Mörch 1852 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Cymatium (Septa) gemmatum" = Septa, "Cymatium (Septa) pileare" = Monoplex pilearis
"Cymatium (Septa) gemmatum" = Septa triton shell
"Cymatium (Septa) pileare" = Monoplex pilearis Linnaeus 1758 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Bursidae
Bursa (Bufonariella) granularis Röding 1798 frog shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea cicercula" = Pustularia cicercula, "Cypraea erosa" = Naria erosa, "Cypraea caputserpentis" = Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis, "Cypraea helvola" = Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola, "Cypraea cf. eglantina" = Mauritia eglantina
"Cypraea cicercula" = Pustularia cicercula Linnaeus 1758 cowry
"Cypraea erosa" = Naria erosa Linnaeus 1758 cowry
"Cypraea caputserpentis" = Cypraea (Erosaria) caputserpentis Linnaeus 1758 cowry
"Cypraea helvola" = Cypraea (Erosaria) helvola Linnaeus 1758 cowry
"Cypraea cf. eglantina" = Mauritia eglantina Duclos 1833 cowry
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Pupa cf. solidula Linnaeus 1758 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Noetiidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Anadara antiquata" = Anadara (Anadara) antiquata, "Arca ventricosa" = Lamarcka ventricosa, "Barbatia (Acar) cf. plicata" = Acar plicata
"Anadara antiquata" = Anadara (Anadara) antiquata Linnaeus 1758 ark
"Arca ventricosa" = Lamarcka ventricosa Lamarck 1819 clam
"Barbatia (Acar) cf. plicata" = Acar plicata Dillwyn 1817 miniature ark
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima lima Linnaeus 1758 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Venus (Ventricolaria) toreuma" = Globivenus, "Venus (Periglypta) reticulata" = Periglypta reticulata
"Venus (Ventricolaria) toreuma" = Globivenus venus clam
"Venus (Periglypta) reticulata" = Periglypta reticulata Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima" = Tridacna maxima
"Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima" = Tridacna maxima Roeding 1798 cockle
 Carditida - Carditidae
Barbatia (Barbatia) amygdalumtostum
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