Glenaulin, sample II (Oligocene to of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 141.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 48.5° S, 146.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glenelg Group, Oligocene to Oligocene (33.9 - 5.3 Ma)

• Polyzoal clays 6''-1' 6'' below the disconformity at the top of the Formation. East landslip, Allotment 2, Ph. Glenaulin.

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, white, yellow claystone

• This unit consists predominantly of white to yellowish-grey polyzoal clays and marls containing occasional thin-shelled shelly fossils throughout. A thin, nodule-bearing, argillaceous limestone at the base contains an abundant, but poorly preserved, molluscan fauna.

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: D. A. Brown. 1958. Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria (20) [L. Liow/F. Franeck/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173505: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 01.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Cellaria contigua
Cellaria contigua MacGillivray 1895