Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 115.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.0° S, 115.8° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• AGE: "Last Interglacial" of Late Pleistocene. Extended discussion of age in text (Kendrick et al., 1991), but generally regarded as Late Pleistocene on the basis of published U-series dates, ESR, and amino acid racemization results, and good preservational state.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Faunal list is a composite of decades of collecting effort, including that reported by Darragh and Kendrick (1971), Kendrick (1981), Ponder (1985), and Kendrick unpublished data. REPOSITORY: Collection assembled from material reposited in Western Australian Museum (WAM).
Primary reference: G. W. Kendrick, K.-H. Wyrwoll, and B.J. Szabo. 1991. Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 10:419-439 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63355: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Phaxa (Ensiculus) cultellus Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Leptomya psittacus clam | |
"Tellina (Pharaonella) perna" = Tonganaella perna, Macoma (Scissulina) dispar
"Tellina (Pharaonella) perna" = Tonganaella perna Spengler 1798 tellin clam
Macoma (Scissulina) dispar Conrad 1837 tellin clam | |
Fragum (Fragum) carinatum cockle
Fragum (Afrocardium) erugatum Tate 1889 cockle | |
Dosinia incisa, Dosinia sculpta, "Venus (Ventricolaria) toreuma" = Globivenus, Marcia fumigata, Tapes ? dorsatus, Circe sulcata, "Circe scripta" = Circe (Circe) scripta, Callista (Costacallista) planatella
Dosinia incisa venus clam Listed as Dosinia (Pectunculus) incisa; entered as D. incisa to avoid problems with Pectunculus homonyms (Glycymerididae)
Dosinia sculpta Hanley 1845 venus clam Listed as Dosinia (Pectunculus) sculpta; entered as D. incisa to avoid problems with Pectunculus homonyms (Glycymerididae)
"Venus (Ventricolaria) toreuma" = Globivenus venus clam
Marcia fumigata venus clam
Tapes ? dorsatus Lamarck 1818 venus clam
Circe sulcata venus clam
"Circe scripta" = Circe (Circe) scripta Linnaeus 1758 Script Venus
Callista (Costacallista) planatella venus clam | |
"Felaniella sp." = Diplodonta
"Felaniella sp." = Diplodonta Bronn 1831 clam | |
Epicodakia bella clam | |
Glycymeris sordida clam | |
Anadara trapezia Deshayes 1839 ark | |
Dendostrea folium Linnaeus 1758 foliate oyster | |
Septifer bilocularis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Musculista glaberrima mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Patelloida alticostata Angas 1865 limpet | |
Patella (Scutellastra) laticostata Blainville 1825 limpet | |
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Conus dorreensis cone shell | |
Melo miltonis volute | |
Pyrene scripta Lamarck 1822 snail | |
Syrinx aruanus snail | |
Elachorbis tatei snail | |
Clypeomorus bifasciata Sowerby 1855 cerith snail
Rhinoclavis fasciata Bruguière 1792 cerith snail
Rhinoclavis bituberculata Sowerby 1855 cerith snail | |
Obtortio sp. Hedley 1899 snail | |
Diala lauta Adams 1862 snail | |
Drupa (Cronia) avellana snail | |
Trochus hanleyanus, Clanculus (Clanculus) atropurpureus, Tectus pyramis, Monilea callifera, Pseudostomatella (Stromatolina) rufescens, Granata imbricata, Thalotia (Prothalotia) cf. flindersi, Chrysostoma zeus
Trochus hanleyanus Reeve 1843 top snail
Clanculus (Clanculus) atropurpureus Gould 1849 top snail
Tectus pyramis Born 1778 top snail
Monilea callifera Lamarck 1822 top snail
Granata imbricata Lamarck 1816 top snail
Thalotia (Prothalotia) cf. flindersi top snail
Chrysostoma zeus top snail | |
Turbo (Marmarostoma) intercostalis Menke 1829 snail |