Also known as Assemblage 13; FL 87
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 143.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° S, 141.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gellibrand Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Gellibrand Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Rutledge Creek Member of the Port Campbell Limestone. Stratigraphy is discussed by Mallet (1977). AGE: The age of the assemblage is late Middle Miocene and is Bairnsdalian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From limited stratigraphic thickness exposed on lake shore.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow, blue, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably multiple collectors from same locality, including the author, and combination with existing museum collections. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria.
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 1985. Molluscan biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Tertiary of southeastern Australia. Alcheringa 9:83-116 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71352: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Serratifusus stellatus true whelk | |
Bonellitia varicifera snail | |
Typhis acanthopterus Tate 1888 murex snail | |
Athleta (Tenuivoluta) antiscalaris, Amoria costellifera, Nannamoria limbata, Nannamoria strophodon, Livonia hannafordi, Alcithoe (Waihaoia) sarissa, Notopeplum maccoyi
Amoria costellifera volute
Nannamoria limbata volute
Nannamoria strophodon volute
Livonia hannafordi volute
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) sarissa Tate 1889 volute | |
Bathytoma decomposita snail | |
Conus cuspidatus Tate 1890 cone shell
Conus heterospira Tate 1890 cone shell | |
Austrocypraea contusa, "Umbilia tatei" = Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata, "Gigantocypraea gigas" = Zoila gigas
Austrocypraea contusa McCoy 1877 cowry
"Umbilia tatei" = Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata Iredale 1916 cowry
"Gigantocypraea gigas" = Zoila gigas McCoy 1867 cowry | |
Cerithiella cribarioides snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Limopsis maccoyi clam
Limopsis morningtonensis Pritchard 1901 clam | |
Cucullaea corioensis McCoy 1876 clam | |
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Proxichione moondarae venus clam | |
Neotrigonia acuticostata McCoy 1866 clam |