PL 3167. Roe Plains, 1.5 km north of Hampton Microwave Repeater Tower (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 127.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 127.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Roe Calcarenite Formation, Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• Late Pliocene based on molluscan fauna and Sr isotopes [Early Pleistocene following lowering of Plio-Pleistocene boundary]. Basal 0.4 m carbonate sand.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the WAM

Primary reference: R. S. Craig. 1999. A new Pliocene terebratulid brachiopod from the Roe Calcarenite, Eucla Basin of southern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19:267-275 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152476: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 22.11.2013, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata1 Iredale 1916 cowry
Zoila campestris1 Darragh 2011 cowry
Austrocypraea amae2 Fehse and Kendrick 2000 cowry
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Neothyris rylandae n. sp. Craig 1999