Muddy Creek (BMNH collection) (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.7° S, 141.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° S, 140.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Muddy Creek Marl Member (Port Campbell Limestone Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Balcombian in Australian timescale.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, silty marl

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. Jung. 1966. Zwei miocaene Arten von Aturia (Nautilaceae). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 59:485-492 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165934: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.01.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Sphenotrochus emarciatus n. sp." = Idiotrochus emarciatus1
"Sphenotrochus emarciatus n. sp." = Idiotrochus emarciatus1 Duncan 1865 stony coral
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia cubaensis Lea 1841 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
"Cypraea (Trivia) avellanoides n. sp." = Trivellona avellanoides2
"Cypraea (Trivia) avellanoides n. sp." = Trivellona avellanoides2 McCoy 1867 snail