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
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 | |
Columbarium rumatoides snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Parvamussium sp. Sacco 1897 mud scallop | |
Serripecten sp. Marwick 1928 scallop | |
Periploma vivarirex n. sp.
Periploma vivarirex n. sp. clam | |
Solemya kingsparki n. sp.
Solemya kingsparki n. sp. Awning Clam | |
Sarepta austranaxa n. sp.
Sarepta austranaxa n. sp. clam |