Browns Creek, Johanna, Victoria (upper Browns Creek Formation): Late/Upper Eocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
? Pseudominella squarossa
Gastropoda - Phasianellidae
Collonia variabilis Pease 1860
recombined as Tricolia (Hiloa) variabilis
Gastropoda - Tornidae
Eutinochilus otwayensis
spelled with current rank as Teinostoma (Eutinochilus)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Saccella) chapmani Finlay 1924
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula taitei
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Dimyidae
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus gaderopoides McCoy 1876
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Notogrammatodon cainozoicus (Tate 1886)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia (Barbatia) limatella Tate 1886
Arca pseudonavicularis Tate 1886
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona lenticularis (Tate 1886)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis (Limopsis) chapmani Singleton 1932
Limopsis (Limopsis) multiradiata Tate 1886
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosina multilamellata
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Caryocorbula) pixidata Tate 1887
recombined as Caryocorbula pixidata
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Salaputium communis
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Rotundicardia) latissima
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.8° South, 143.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.2° South, 141.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Browns Creek Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Late Eocene, Aldingan Stage; dark gritty clay, above greensand
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly poorly lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Gritty dark clay
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Collections are registered in the Western Australia Museum (WAM) and Museum of Victoria (NMV). Collections PL 3013 and 3014.
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for mollusca
Metadata
Also known as:upper Browns Creek Formation
Database number:48577
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-03-23 15:24:32 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-23 15:24:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12938. T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2000. Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 112(1):17-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]