Abrakurrie Limestone (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (32.0° S, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 120.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Abrakurrie Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Abrakurrie Limestone, which regionally unconformably overlies the Wilson Bluff Limestone (Late Eocene) and underlies the Nullabor Limestone (Middle Miocene) in the Eucla Basin. AGE: Early Miocene (Longfordian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From multiple localities and horizons, hence assigned to a "formation" scale.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, presumably shallow marine carbonate setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Multiple, unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: Various repositories, including the Museum of Victoria, Melborne, Victoria, Australia.

Primary reference: A. G. Beu and T.A. Darragh. 2001. Revision of southern Australian Cenozoic fossil Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Proceedings of the Royal Sociey of Victoria 113(1):1-205 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72186: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Restricted list, only comprising bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
? Notochlamys squamundata, Abrachlamys toolinensis n. sp., Talochlamys sp., Talochlamys multilamellata
? Notochlamys squamundata Beu and Darragh 2001 scallop
Abrachlamys toolinensis n. sp. scallop
Talochlamys sp. Iredale 1929 scallop
Talochlamys multilamellata Beu and Darragh 2001 scallop
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Eotrigonia subundulata