Glenaulin, sample XXVII (Oligocene to of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.9° S, 141.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 138.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Calcareous clays immediately overlying the nodular limestone bed near the base of the Formation. East landslip, Allotment 2, Ph. Glenaulin.

Environment/lithology: marine; brown, argillaceous limestone

• This unit overlies unconformably the Glenaulin clay and consists mainly of orange-brown polyzoal limestones with some polyzoal marls and clayey beds. A massive nodular limestone bed near the base of this member contains a large 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 173507: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 01.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

• This yielded no identifiable Polyzoa.
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