Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.2° S, 115.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.5° S, 115.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ascot Formation, Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• "Late Pliocene". Age based on molluscan correlations to other units (presence of Hartungia and Cucullaea in lower layers). Planktonic foraminifers from the base of Paulik's bore, Jandakot (Mallett, 1982) included specimens considered to represent the evolutionary transition from Globorotalia tosaensis to early forms of G. truncatulinoides, for which a Late Pliocene age is widely recognized (Kendrick et al., 1991). G. truncatulinoides subsequently immigrated into the Indian and Atlantic oceans between 2.3 and 1.9 Ma, according to Spencer-Cervato & Thierstein (1997), or appeared around 1.9 Ma (Wade et al., 2011), formerly late Pliocene but now early Pleistocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the WAM

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: R. S. Craig. 1999. The brachiopod fauna of the Plio-Pleistocene Ascot Formation, Perth Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19:451-464 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187446: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.07.2017

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