Glenaulin, sample XVI (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: Glenaulin clay Formation (Glenelg Group), Oligocene to Oligocene (33.9 - 5.3 Ma)

• Argillaceous limestone bed 10'-14' above the unconformity at the base of the Formation.

•South landslip, Allotment 1, 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 173508: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 01.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Vinculariidae
"Vincularia" gigantea Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Biflustra regularis d'Orbigny 1852
 Cheilostomata - Didymosellidae
Didymosella larvalis MacGillivray 1869
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Cellaria contigua MacGillivray 1895
Cellaria stachi n. sp. Brown 1958
Melicerita angustiloba Tenison-Woods 1862
Cellaria cucullata MacGillivray 1895
Cellaria bicornis Busk 1852
Cellaria australis MacGillivray 1880
Acerinucleus incudiferus Maplestone 1902
 Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
 Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Palmicellaria quadrifrons Maplestone 1900
Palmicellaria otwayensis Maplestone 1900
"Cellepora" sp. Linnaeus 1767
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
"Schizoporella" orbiculifera Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Porinidae
Porina gracilis Lamarck 1816
Porina gracilis vertebralis; Porina gracilis tubulifera
 Cheilostomata - Lacernidae
Arthropoma torquis n. sp. Brown 1958
 Cheilostomata - Siphonicytaridae
Tubitrabecularia elevata Tenison-Woods 1877
 Cheilostomata - Mucronellidae
Smittinella tatei Tenison-Woods 1877
 Cheilostomata - Lekythoporidae
? Lekythopora hystrix MacGillivray 1883
 Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Smittina cribraria MacGillivray 1886
 Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
 Cheilostomata - Petraliidae
 Cheilostomata - Exochellidae
Bathosella bulbosa Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Hincksinidae
 Cheilostomata - Ellisinidae
Ellisina profunda MacGillivray 1895
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Crassimarginatella sculpta MacGillivray 1895
Ramphonotus lusorius Waters 1881
Foveolaria thomasi Brown 1958
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Onychocella sp. Jullien 1882
Ogiva concamerata Waters 1881
 Cheilostomata - Microporidae
Selenaria cupola Tenison-Woods 1880
Selenaria cupola spiralis
 Cheilostomata - Aspidostomatidae
Crateropora patula Waters 1881
Crateropora inconspicua n. sp. Brown 1958
Aspidostoma airense Maplestone 1902
Odontionella bullata n. sp. Brown 1958
 Cheilostomata - Arachnopusiidae
Arachnopusia liversidgei Tenison-Woods 1877
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
Escharoides erecta Canu and Bassler 1935
Escharoides osburni Brown 1958
Escharella elongata Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae
Corbulipora cornuta MacGillivray 1895
Corbulipora ornata MacGillivray 1895