Morgan, Murray River (Miocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.0° S, 139.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° S, 137.3° 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 122479: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.12.2011, edited by Amanda Doyle

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Deltocyathus verconis Dennant 1904 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia basedowi n. sp. Dennant 1904 stony coral
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Brissopsis tatei heart urchin