Gunyoung Creek: Middle Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Cancellaphera calvulata
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Sigaretotrema subinfundibulum
(Tate 1893)
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Gastropoda
- Ranellidae
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Austrotriton woodsi
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| synonym of Sassia | ||||||||||
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Biplex maccoyi
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Notadusta victoriana
Schilder 1935
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Rhynchocypraea leptorhyncha
(McCoy 1877)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Umbilia (Umbilia) leptorhyncha | ||||||||||
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Umbilia (Umbilia) siphonata
(Chapman 1922)
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Darragh 2002 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Umbilia (Umbilia) eximia
(Sowerby 1845)
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Darragh 2002 | 36 specimens | ||||||||
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Palliocypraea gastroplax
(McCoy 1867)
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| recombined as Umbilia (Palliocypraea) gastroplax | ||||||||||
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Zoila platypyga
(McCoy 1876)
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Darragh 2011 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
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Zoila gigas
(McCoy 1867)
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Darragh 2011 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Serratifusus stellatus
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Serratifusus clydoniatus
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Penion roblini
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| SUBSPECIES: P. roblini simulans | ||||||||||
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Penion longirostris
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Lyria acuticostulata
Darragh 1989
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Athleta (Ternivoluta) antiscalaris
(McCoy 1866)
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| SUBSPECIES: A. (T.) antiscalaris levior | ||||||||||
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Nannamoria limbata
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Subpterynotus wallacei
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| original and current combination Murexiella (Subpterynotus) | ||||||||||
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Murexsul eyrei
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Typhis evaricosus
Tate 1888
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| recombined as Siphonochelus evaricosus | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus pullulescens
Tenison Woods 1879
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| recombined as Parviconus pullulescens | ||||||||||
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Conus dennanti
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Borsoniidae
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Bathytoma decomposita
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Hina cainozoica
(Tenison Woods 1877)
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Tawera propinqua
(Tenison Woods 1877)
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassatella dennanti
Tate 1886
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
| Coordinates: | 38.2° South, 145.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.0° South, 143.6° 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: | Middle Miocene | Foram zone: | M6-7 |
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fyansford | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Fyansford Fm (=Balcombe Clay). Stratigraphy is discussed by Gostin (1966). AGE: The age of the assemblage is Middle Miocene and is Bairnsdalian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From upper 15 m of formation. Foram zones based on Dickinson et al. (2002. Origin and Timing of the Miocene-Pliocene Unconformity in Southeast Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Research 72:288-303. 10.1306/082701720288) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal unlithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Richly fossiliferous clay. LITHIFICATION: Assumed unlithified on the basis of age and figured specimens (Beu and Darragh 2001). | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, siliciclastic. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Probably multiple collectors from same locality, including the author, and combination with existing museum collections. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Utilized modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Assemblage 12; FL 103; Gunyong Creek; Grices Creek | ||
| Database number: | 71351 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, P. Wagner | Enterer: | A. Hendy, P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-04-23 15:15:45 | Last modified: | 2016-02-06 15:07:00 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2007-10-23 15:15:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23859. | T. A. Darragh. 1985. Molluscan biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Tertiary of southeastern Australia. Alcheringa 9:83-116 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 18301 | T. A. Darragh. 2002. A revision of the Australian genus Umbilia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 59(2):355-392 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] | |
| 57935 | T. A. Darragh. 2011. A revision of the Australian fossil species of Zoila (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68:1-28 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |