Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.5° S, 113.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 113.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dampier Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• AGE: Logan et al. (1970) assigned the Dampier Limestone an informal "middle" Pleistocene age from evidence of its contact relationships with older and younger unit; this assignment was follwed by Butcher et al. (1984), Hocking et al. (1987), van de Fraaf et al. (1983) and Denman et al. (1985). The present publication (Kendrick 1990) reassigns the Dampier Limestone to the Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Lower 0.3 m of richly fossiliferous shelly limestone within a 1 m thick section. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: The Dampier Limestone is capped nbby a strong calcrete layer, and is further overlain by a well-cemented thin, shelly-coralline rubble, possibly correlated to the Bibra Limestone. The Dampier Limestone unconformably overlies the Peron Sandstone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Primary reference: G. W. Kendrick. 1990. A Pleistocene molluscan fauna with Anadara trapezia (Deshayes) (Bivalvia: Arcoida) from the Dampier Limestone of Shark Bay, Western Australia. Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee: Research in Shark Bay 33-48 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63351: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.08.2006

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