Grange Burn, Forsyth's (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.7° S, 141.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° S, 139.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Dennant. 1904. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 7. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 28:52-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122477: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.12.2011, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Deltocyathus fontinalis Dennant 1904 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum grangense n. sp. Dennant 1904 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiacyathidae
"Bathyactis beaumariensis" = Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) beaumariensis
"Bathyactis beaumariensis" = Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) beaumariensis Dennant 1904 stony coral
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo latidens Agassiz 1835 tiger shark