Unspecified localities [Kings Park Fm] (Paleocene to of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 115.8° E: paleocoordinates 57.4° S, 101.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kings Park Formation, Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Kings Park Formation. AGE: late Paleocene in age, based on planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and associated age ranges of the molluscan fauna.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic siltstone and glauconitic sandstone

• LITHOLOGY: dark, glauconitic siltstone and sandstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. D. Stilwell. 2005. A rare, late Paleocene molluscan faunule from the Kings Park Formation, Perth Basin, Western Australia. Alcheringa 29(2):331-340 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162311: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
 Neogastropoda - Columbariidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Parvamussium sp. Sacco 1897 mud scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Serripecten sp. Marwick 1928 scallop
 Thraciida - Periplomatidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
Solemya kingsparki n. sp. Awning Clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Sarepta austranaxa n. sp. clam