Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.1° S, 115.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 115.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ascot Formation, Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)
• "Early Pleistocene". Age based on molluscan correlations to other units (absence of Hartungia and Cucullaea). Upper part of Ascot Formation contains more extant molluscan species than lower part and lacks some species found in "Late Pliocene" (actually Gelasian) units such as the Roe Calcarenite. With the reassignment of the Gelasian to the Pleistocene, this part of the unit is presumably Calabrian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; 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 187462: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Anakinetica recta Richardson 1991 |