Adelaide Bore, Kent Town - Tortachilla Limestone: Priabonian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella globularis Tate 1886
recombined as Solamen (Exosiperna) globularis
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiola sp. Lamarck 1801
corrected as Modiolus
Modiola adelaidensis Tate 1886
recombined as Modiolus adelaidensis
Modiolaria semigranosa Tate 1886
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Macrodon cainozoicus Tate 1886
recombined as Notogrammatodon cainozoicus
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Pectunculus cainozoicus (Tenison Woods 1877)
recombined as Glycymeris cainozoica
Pectunculus lenticularis Tate 1886
recombined as Tucetona lenticularis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea adelaidensis Tate 1886
Arca equidens Tate 1886
recombined as Cucullaea equidens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia limatella Tate 1886
Barbatia dissimilis Tate 1886
Arca pseudonavicularis Tate 1886
Bivalvia - Arcida - Philobryidae
Limarca angustifrons Tate 1886
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis multiradiata Tate 1886
Limopsis insolita (Sowerby 1846)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Avicula nasuta Tate 1886
recombined as Pteria nasuta
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Dimyidae
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten hochstetteri
    = Victoripecten victoriensis Crespin 1950
Beu and Darragh 2001
Pecten flindersi Tate 1886
synonym of Talochlamys eyrei
Pecten zitteli Wohrmann and Koken 1892
recombined as Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) zitteli
Pecten peroni Tate 1886
recombined as Chlamys peroni
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus gaderopoides McCoy 1876
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima alticosta
Lima bassii Tenison Woods 1877
Lima polyactina Tate 1886
Lima polynema Tate 1886
recombined as Promantellum polynema
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Gouldia lamellata Tate 1886
recombined as Salaputium lamellata
Crassatella astartiformis Tate 1886
Crassatella aphrodina Tenison Woods 1876
recombined as Eucrassatella aphrodina
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita latissima Tate 1886
recombined as Glyptoactis (Fasciculicardia) latissima
Mytilicardia alata Tate 1886
recombined as Cardita alata
Mytilicardia curta Tate 1886
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Leda planiuscula Tate 1886
recombined as Sarepta planiuscula
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Leda leptorhyncha Tate 1886
recombined as Ledella leptorhyncha
Leda huttoni
synonym of Nuculana
Leda apiculata Tate 1886
replaced by Nuculana chapmani
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula semistriata Tate 1886
Gastropoda - Eocypraeidae
Willungia ovulatella (Tate 1890)
Fehse 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:South Australia
Coordinates: 34.9° South, 138.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.9° South, 133.6° 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:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tortachilla Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from Tortachilla Limestone, which overlies the Maslin Sands and is overlain by the Blanche Point Fm in the East St Vincent Basin. AGE: Late Eocene (Priabonian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001) - local stage=Aldingan. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation, possibly multiple and mixed bed, hence assigned to a "formation" scale.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,green poorly lithified argillaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Glauconitic clayey green sands. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified on the basis of figured specimens and facies description (limestone)
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Utilized very antiquated nomenclature, with species-level assignments. Nomenclature updated with Darragh (1970), Darragh (1985), and Beu and Darragh (2001).
Metadata
Database number:71407
Authorizer:A. Hendy, P. Wagner Enterer:A. Hendy, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-04-24 18:07:53 Last modified:2016-03-02 13:22:43
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-04-24 18:07:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18236. R. Tate. 1886. The lamellibranchs of the Older Tertiary of Australia (part 1). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 8:96-158 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

18299 A. G. Beu and T.A. Darragh. 2001. Revision of southern Australian Cenozoic fossil Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Proceedings of the Royal Sociey of Victoria 113(1):1-205 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
58320 D. Fehse. 2013. The genus Willungia Powell, 1938 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea) and its assignment to the higher systematics. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 299(1-6):149 -158 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]