Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.1° S, 153.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 153.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• last interglacial period. Radiometric dating by Pickett et al. (1989)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Pickett. 1981. A Late Pleistocene coral fauna from Evans Head, N.S.W. Alcheringa 5:71-83 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84621: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.11.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Siphonaria sp. Sowerby 1824 pulmonate | |
Bivalvia | |
Septifer bilocularis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Trichomya hirsuta mussel | |
Pinna incurva Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
"Ustularca cruciata" = Barbatia (Barbatia)
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Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Polychaeta | |
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Anthozoa | |
"Fungia actiniformis" = Heliofungia actiniformis, Fungia fungites
"Fungia actiniformis" = Heliofungia actiniformis Quoi and Gaimard 1833 stony coral
Fungia fungites Linnaeus 1758 stony coral | |
Porites lobata Dana 1846 stony coral
Goniopora cf. lobata Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral | |
Pocillopora damicornis Linnaeus 1758 stony coral
Seriatopora hystrix Dana 1846 stony coral | |
Montipora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
"Acropora cf. splendida" = Acropora valenciennesi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860 stony coral | |
Lobophyllia corymbosa Forskal 1775 stony coral | |
Favites abdita, "Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida, Hydnophora exesa, Mycedium elephantotus, Platygyra lamellina, Cyphastrea serailia
Favites abdita Ellis and Solander 1786 stony coral
"Favia pallida" = Dipsastraea pallida Dana 1846 stony coral
Hydnophora exesa Pallas 1766 stony coral
Mycedium elephantotus Pallas 1766 stony coral
Platygyra lamellina Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral | |
Turbinaria sp., "Turbinaria danae" = Turbinaria frondens
Turbinaria sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
"Turbinaria danae" = Turbinaria frondens Dana 1846 stony coral | |
"Catalaphyllia plicata" = Catalaphyllia jardinei
"Catalaphyllia plicata" = Catalaphyllia jardinei Saville Kent 1893 stony coral | |
Foraminifera | |
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808 |