Abrakurrie Limestone - Murra-el-Elevyn Cave: Early/Lower Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Notochlamys foulcheri
(Tenison Woods 1865)
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| recombined as Semipallium foulcheri | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Spondylidae
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Spondylus gaderopoides
McCoy 1876
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Panopea sp.
(Menard 1807)
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Cypraea cf. pyrulata
Tate 1890
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| recombined as Notoluponia pyrulata | |||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Cancellothyrididae
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Murravia catinuliformis
(Tate 1896)
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Terebratellidae
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Magellania furcata
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Magellania garibaldiana
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia |
| Coordinates: | 32.0° South, 126.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.8° South, 120.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Abrakurrie Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified calcareous grainstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Porous bryozoan calcarenite and granule calcirudite. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on figures and facies description. | |
| Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Deposited on shallow open shelf, and normal marine salinity. Warm-water. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown collector, presumably Tate (c. 1879) or Ludbrook (c. 1967). REPOSITORY: No repository reported in text. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for brachiopoda, bivalvia, and gastropoda. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but using relatively current nomenclature and species-level designations. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 70717 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-04-03 09:11:09 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2008-04-03 09:11:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9081. | 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] |