Hotspur, sample XV (Miocene to of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.9° S, 141.5° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 139.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wataepoolan limestone Formation (Glenelg Group), Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 23.0 Ma)

• Snizort Pre-emptive Right, Ph. Hotspur.

•Polyzoal limestone, easily disintegrated

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 173511: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 01.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Smittina ordinata MacGillivray 1895
Smittina inarmata Brown 1958
 Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
 Cheilostomata - Mucronellidae
Smittinella tatei Tenison-Woods 1877
 Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
 Cheilostomata - Porinidae
Porina gracilis Lamarck 1816
Porina gracilis vertebralis
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
"Schizoporella" orbiculifera Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Cellaria contigua MacGillivray 1895
Cellaria dennanti MacGillivray 1895
Cellaria bicornis Busk 1852
? Cellaria rigida MacGillivray 1885
Cellaria rigida perampla, Cellaria perampla
 Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Palmicellaria quadrifrons Maplestone 1900
 Cheilostomata - Flustridae
Hincksina geminata Waters 1881
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
Escharella elongata Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Aspidostomatidae
Crateropora patula Waters 1881
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Ogiva concamerata Waters 1881
 Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Foveolaria thomasi Brown 1958
 Cheilostomata - Didymosellidae
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Biflustra regularis d'Orbigny 1852
 Cheilostomata - Vinculariidae
"Vincularia" gigantea Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Hincksinidae