Where: South Australia, Australia (36.0° S, 137.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 136.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Point Allen Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Point Allen Fm, lateral equivalent to the Burham Limestone. Of limited extent in distribution and deposited on irregular surfaces. The Point Allen Fm and Burnham Limestone rest unconformably on Hallett Cove Sandstone and its equivalents. THICKNESS: From a few centimetres to two metres. AGE: Early Pleistocene based on biostratigraphy and the age of bounding units. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From throughout the formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: The list is a composite made by many collectors, mainly Chapman (1915), Wopfner (1964), Milnes and Cooper (1965), Milnes, Cooper anmd Ludbrook (1981, 1982). REPOSITORY: National Museum of Victoria (NMV) and Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA).

Primary reference: N.H. Ludbrook. 1983. Molluscan faunas of the Early Pleistocene Point Allen Formation and Burnham limestone, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 107(1):37-49 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63379: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2006

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