Also known as Loc. 20 (McNamara and Kendrick 1994)
Where: Western Australia, Australia (20.8° S, 115.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 110.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed formation. Late Pleistocene deposits unconformably overly Miocene rocks of the Poivre Fm. THICKNESS: 2 m thick in places. AGE: First determined to be Pleistocene by Smith (1962); no justification stated in text for assignment to Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Disturbed material from pit floor.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTORS: Collected by authors, K.J. McNamara and G.W. Kendrick. REPOSITORY: Western Australian Museum (WAM)
Primary reference: K.J. McNamara and G.W. Kendrick. 1994. Cenozoic Molluscs and Echinoids of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 51 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63320: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Plesiastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Cyphastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Galaxea astreata Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccostrea cuccullata Born 1778 oyster | |
Cardites sp. Link 1807 clam
Megacardita turgida clam | |
Divaricella ornata clam | |
Fragum (Fragum) carinatum cockle
Fragum (Fragum) unedo Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Acrosterigma dupuchense cockle | |
Gafrarium intermedium venus clam
Circe lenticularis Deshayes 1853 venus clam
Gouldia (Gouldia) sp. Adams 1847 venus clam
Callista impar venus clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Laevidentalium sp. Cossmann 1888 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Thais ? sp. Röding 1798 murex snail | |
Pterygia sp. Röding 1798 mitre shell | |
"Semivertagus nesioticum" = Clava (Semivertagus)
"Semivertagus nesioticum" = Clava (Semivertagus) cerith snail | |
Turbo (Marmarostoma) haynesi Preston 1914 snail
Astralium pileolum snail | |
Tectus fenestratus Gmelin 1791 top snail | |
Bulla sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail |