Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 143.8° E: paleocoordinates 49.8° S, 141.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Dennant said Eocene, according to Cairns 1997 a Miocene age is more likely
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Dennant. 1902. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 5. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26:255-264 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122381: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2011, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Conocyathus scrobiculatus" = Conocyathus zelandiae
"Conocyathus scrobiculatus" = Conocyathus zelandiae Duncan 1876 stony coral | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Oxyrhina desori" = Isurus oxyrinchus
"Oxyrhina desori" = Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark |