Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.1° S, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 52.6° S, 115.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wilson Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Wilson Bluff Limestone, which overlies the Madura Fm (Early Cretaceous) and is overlain unconformably by the Abrakurrie Limestone (Early Miocene). THICKNESS: From exposed unit with formation of about ~160 ft. AGE: latest Middle-Late Eocene according to Lowry (1970). Bartonian-Priabonian according to Beu and Darragh (2001). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown collector, presumably Tate (c. 1879) or Singleton (c. 1954). REPOSITORY: No repository reported in text.
Primary reference: D. C. Lowry. 1970. Geology of the Western Australian part of the Eucla basin. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 122:1-201 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70633: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Crepidula cf. hainsworthi" = Zeacrypta hainsworthi
"Crepidula cf. hainsworthi" = Zeacrypta hainsworthi Johnston 1885 slipper shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys aldingensis" = Serripecten aldingensis, "Chlamys eyrei" = Talochlamys eyrei
"Chlamys aldingensis" = Serripecten aldingensis Tate 1886 scallop
"Chlamys eyrei" = Talochlamys eyrei Tate 1886 scallop |