Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 127.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 126.7° E)
When: Roe Calcarenite Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T.A. Darragh, M. Archer & G.W. Kendrick in 1969/03/05; reposited in the WAM
Primary reference: D. Fehse and G. W. Kendrick. 2000. A new species of Austrocypraea (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Late Pliocene of the Eucla Basin, southern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20:95-101 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176027: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Austrocypraea amae n. sp.
Austrocypraea amae n. sp. Fehse and Kendrick 2000 cowry |