Where: Western Australia, Australia (27.8° S, 114.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° S, 99.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)
• Collectively, the planktonic foraminifers indicate that the newly discovered site belongs within the P13 to P16 zonal range (40.5 – 34.0 Ma BKSA95).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, cherty/siliceous mudstone and poorly lithified, cherty/siliceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original silica, replaced with silica
Collection methods: Repository: University of Western Australia
Primary reference: D. W. Haig and A. J. Mory. 2003. New record of siliceous, marine, later Eocene from Kalbarri, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 86:107-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 179822: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Subbotina linaperta, Subbotina inaequispira, Subbotina eocaena, Globigerinatheka index, ? Catapsydrax sp.
? Catapsydrax sp. Bolli et al. 1957 | |
? Turborotalia sp. Cushman and Burmudez 1949 | |
Demospongea | |
"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae
"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae Sollas 1875 demosponge | |
Cephalopoda | |
Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 nautiloid | |
Aturia clarkei Teichert 1944 nautiloid | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 |