Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 124.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 119.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nullarbor Limestone Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. C. Lowry. 1970. Geology of the Western Australian part of the Eucla basin. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 122:1-201 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34468: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Bivalvia | |
Macoma sp. Leach 1819 tellin clam | |
"Vasticardium sp." = Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)
"Vasticardium sp." = Acrosterigma (Vasticardium) Iredale 1927 cockle | |
Anodontia sphericula Basedow 1902 clam | |
"Pecten murrayanus" = Annachlamys murrayana
"Pecten murrayanus" = Annachlamys murrayana Tate 1886 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea hyotidoidea Tate 1899 oyster | |
"Glycymeris (Tucetona) gunyoungensis" = Tucetona
"Glycymeris (Tucetona) gunyoungensis" = Tucetona clam | |
Cucullaea corioensis McCoy 1876 clam |