Late Pleistocene, Old Shelf Camp (Pleistocene of Australia)

Also known as Loc. 20 (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: Disturbed material from pit floor.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Mosaic of sand, coral and seagrass, inshore shallow waters, moderate to low wave energy and good tidal circulation, water depth unlikely to exceed 5 m.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shelly-coral, well-cemented, richly fossiliferous sandy limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, as stated in text to be "well-cemented".

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 63320: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and echinoidea, although the authors suggest that further collecting will increase taxonomic lists. Foraminifera mentioned to be present, but not listed. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-level names.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Galaxea astreata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Tectus fenestratus Gmelin 1791 top snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Semivertagus nesioticum" = Clava (Semivertagus)
"Semivertagus nesioticum" = Clava (Semivertagus) cerith snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Pterygia sp. Röding 1798 mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Thais ? sp. Röding 1798 murex snail
 Opisthobranchia - Bullidae
Bulla sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Saccostrea cuccullata Born 1778 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Gouldia (Gouldia) sp. Adams 1847 venus clam
Circe lenticularis Deshayes 1853 venus clam
Callista impar venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardites sp. Link 1807 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
Laevidentalium sp. Cossmann 1888 tusk shell