Also known as Reef 3235
Where: Western Australia, Australia (30.9° S, 128.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° S, 123.6° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mullamullang Limestone Member (Nullarbor Limestone Formation), Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
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 34466: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
? Melobesia sp. Lamoroux 1812 | |
? Corallina sp. Linnaeus 1758
? Dermatolithon sp. Foslie 1898
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
Anthozoa | |
Galaxea sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Dendrophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Seriatopora sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
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Placotrochus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Dosinia (Kereia) johnstoni" = Kereia johnstoni
"Dosinia (Kereia) johnstoni" = Kereia johnstoni Tate 1887 venus clam | |
Miltha sp. Adams and Adams 1857 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
cf. Diastoma sp. Deshayes 1850 snail |