Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.1° S, 126.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.9° S, 120.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Abrakurrie Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Abrakurrie Limestone, which unconformably overlies the Wilson Bluff Limestone (Late Eocene) and is overlain unconformably by the Nullabor Limestone (Middle Miocene). THICKNESS: From exposed unit with formation of about ~70 ft. AGE: Latest Early Miocene (Burdigalian)/Longfordian Australian stage according to Beu and Darragh (2001). Longfordian according to Lowry (1970). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown collector, presumably Tate (c. 1879) or Ludbrook (c. 1967). REPOSITORY: No repository reported in text.
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70719: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus gaderopoides, "Pecten murrayanus" = Annachlamys murrayana
Spondylus gaderopoides McCoy 1876 scallop
"Pecten murrayanus" = Annachlamys murrayana Tate 1886 scallop |