Where: Victoria, Australia (38.9° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.3° S, 141.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oligocene to Oligocene (33.9 - 5.3 Ma)
• Dennant said Eocene, but an Oligocene-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 122382: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2011, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Odontaspis cuspidata" = Araloselachus cuspidatus1
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Anthozoa | |
Pleuropodia otwayensis n. gen. n. sp.3
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Ceratotrochus exilis n. sp. Dennant 1902 stony coral | |
"Trematotrochus kitsoni" = Foveolocyathus kitsoni2
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Conosmilia granulata n. sp.4
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Balanophyllia basedowi4, Balanophyllia truncata4, Balanophyllia torta n. sp.4, Balanophyllia induta4, Balanophyllia fossata n. sp.4, Balanophyllia cauliculata n. sp.4
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