Where: Western Australia, Australia (31.9° S, 116.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 116.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• AGE: Middle Holocene; a radiocarbon age of 6660 +/- 120 yr BP (shell carbonate) indicate that the fauna lived during the Flandrian transgression. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Stratigraphic relationship of the elements of the spoil-pile was not observed direction, but apparently the modern channel bed is composed of coarse sand. Dredging removed from 0.3-2.1 m of substrate, resulting in a channel level about 4.4-5.6 m below sea level. Shell-bearing siltstone came from low in the cut beneath the channel sand and, from its relative scarcity in the spoil, was either of no great thickness or was only slightly or intermittently penetrated by the dredge.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: salvage, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: H.E. Merrifield (1969) and G.W. Kendrick (1970-71). REPOSITORY: Western Australian Museum (WAM)

Primary reference: G. W. Kendrick. 1977. Middle Holocene marine molluscs near Guildford, Western Australia, and evidence for climate change. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 59(4):97-104 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63350: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.08.2006

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