Peppermint Grove Limestone Mbr, Tamala Limestone - East Freemantle (Pleistocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 115.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° S, 115.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peppermint Grove Limestone Member (Tamala Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Peppermint Grove Limestone is relegated to member status following Kendrick et al. 1991. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Unknown relationships to other bounding units, as not mentioned in text. THICKNESS: Shell bed about two feet in thickness. AGE: Late Pleistocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, coarse-grained, pebbly, shelly/skeletal, brown, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: Mixed assemblage of taxa from ipen rocky shore or reef flat, sandy beach with moderate exposure, and sheltered shallow marine gulf habitats. Here, assigned to a siliciclastic "shoreface" environment. SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: Accumulated during Late Pleistocene sea-level rise.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Rounded travertine pebbles and occasional rolled corals in a corase brown shell sand. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, assumed to be unlithified give age and as text states sediment to be soft.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: Collected by members of the Western Australia Naturalist's Club. REPOSITORY: Western Australian Museum, Perth.

Primary reference: G. W. Kendrick. 1960. The fossil Mollusca of the Peppermint Grove Limestone, Swan River district or Western Australia. The Western Australian Naturalist 7(3):53-66 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63207: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for mollusca. No other groups mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but all identifications are made to species level, and nomenclature is fairly modern.
unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
"Herpetopoma apersa" = Euchelus (Herpetopoma)
"Herpetopoma apersa" = Euchelus (Herpetopoma) snail
 Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis roei Gray 1826 abalone
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Amblychilepas nigrita Sowerby 1835 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Trochoidea - Liotiidae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Senectus pulcher" = Turbo (Senectus), "Euninella gruneri" = Turbo (Euninella), "Ninella whitleyi" = Turbo (Ninella)
"Senectus pulcher" = Turbo (Senectus) snail
"Euninella gruneri" = Turbo (Euninella) snail
"Ninella whitleyi" = Turbo (Ninella) snail
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
  -
 Patellida - Lottiidae
Patelloida alticostata Angas 1865 limpet
"Notoacmaea onychitus" = Notoacmea limpet
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
"Patellanax peroni" = Scutellastra, "Patellanax laticostata" = Scutellastra
"Patellanax peroni" = Scutellastra limpet
"Patellanax laticostata" = Scutellastra limpet
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cacozeliana icarus cerith snail
"Vertagus asper" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Hipponicidae
"Antisabia sp." = Hipponix (Antisabia), "Antisabia erma" = Hipponix (Antisabia)
"Antisabia sp." = Hipponix (Antisabia) Iredale 1917 hoof shell
"Antisabia erma" = Hipponix (Antisabia) hoof shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
"Melaraphe unifasciata" = Littorina (Melaraphe), Tectarius rugosus
"Melaraphe unifasciata" = Littorina (Melaraphe) periwinkle
Tectarius rugosus periwinkle
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices conicus Lamarck 1822 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Oliva ornata olive snail
"Oliva australis" = Oliva (Strephona) australis Duclos 1835 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Bedeva paivae Crosse 1864 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Hormomya sp." = Brachidontes (Hormomya) Mörch 1853 mussel
Septifer bilocularis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea angasi Sowerby 1846 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia pistachia Lamarck 1819 clam
[entered as Barbatia pistachya]
Anadara trapezia Deshayes 1839 ark
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Fragum erugatum Tate 1889 cockle
"Regozara flava" = Trachycardium (Regozara) cockle
Fulvia tenuicostata Lamarck 1819 cockle
 Cardiida - Donacidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Angulus perna, "Homalina deltoidalis" = Tellina (Homalina), Macoma dispar
Angulus perna tellin clam
"Homalina deltoidalis" = Tellina (Homalina) tellin clam
Macoma dispar tellin clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Katelysia scalarina Lamarck 1818 venus clam
Katelysia rhytiphora Lamy 1937 venus clam
Eumarcia fumigata Sowerby 1853 venus clam
Venerupis cf. iris venus clam
"Redicirce plebeia" = Circe (Redicirce) venus clam
 Cardiida - Mesodesmatidae
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae