Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 144.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.8° S, 142.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Dennant said Eocene, according to Cairns 2001 a Balcombian (Middle Miocene) age is more likely
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Dennant. 1899. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 2. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 23:281-287 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122349: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2011, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
"Heterenchelys regularis" = Rhynchoconger regularis4
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Sillago pliocaenica4 Stinton 1952 | |
Trachichthodes salebrosus4 Stinton 1957 | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Oxyrhina hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis1
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Anthozoa | |
Deltocyathus verconis n. sp.3, Ceratotrochus australiensis3, Ceratotrochus exilis2, Platytrochus curvatus2, Platytrochus hastatus2
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Trematotrochus lateroplenus n. sp. Dennant 1899 stony coral | |
Notophyllia gracilis n. sp. Dennant 1899 stony coral |