Where: Victoria, Australia (38.7° S, 143.2° E: paleocoordinates 61.4° S, 146.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dilwyn Formation, Thanetian to Thanetian (59.2 - 47.8 Ma)
• "Trochocyathus-Trematotrochus band" in the lowermost part of the formation, close to the Paleocene/Eocene boundary
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. D. Stilwell. 2003. Macropalaeontology of the Trochocyathus-Trematotrochus band (Paleocene/Eocene boundary), Dilwyn Formation, Otway Basin, Victoria. Alcheringa 27:245-275 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85124: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
? Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin | |
Crustacea | |
Crustacea indet. BrĂ¼nnich 1772 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Bouchardia sp. Davidson 1850 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia "indet. A" Linnaeus 1758 clam
Bivalvia "indet. B" Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Leionucula cf. palaioanaxea Stilwell 1993 nut clam | |
Ledina cf. paucigradata pointed nut clam | |
Erycinidae indet. Gray 1847 clam | |
Parvamussium sp. Sacco 1897 mud scallop | |
Limopsis rupestris clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Gadila laguncula tusk shell | |
Fissidentalium cf. gracilocostatum tusk shell
? Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Superstes glomerabilis snail | |
Cylichnania sp. Marwick 1931 snail | |
? Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837 moon snail | |
Drepanocheilus (Tulochilus) retisurus n. sp. snail | |
"Pyropsis" cf. zelandica snail | |
Mauidrillia otwayensis n. sp.
Mauidrillia otwayensis n. sp. snail | |
Athleta wangerrip volute | |
? Bonellitia sp. Jousseaume 1887 snail | |
? Microvoluta sp. Angas 1877 snail
Volutomitra (Waimatea) dilwyni n. sp. snail | |
"Mitra" rhytidata mitre shell | |
? Nassaria sp. Link 1807 snail | |
Cerithiella leptopyrga n. sp.
Cerithiella leptopyrga n. sp. snail | |
Circulus sp. Jeffreys 1842 snail | |
Colposigma uniangulata turret shell | |
? Odostomia sp. Fleming 1817 snail | |
Acteon petricolus snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Trochocyathus (Platycyathus) sp. Fromentel 1863 stony coral
Trochocyathus wilkinsoni Dennant 1904 stony coral | |
Trematotrochus sp. T.-Woods 1879 stony coral |