Dartmoor, sample XXI (Oligocene to of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.9° S, 141.3° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 138.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Polyzoal clays in the bank of the Glenelg River about 20 chains upstream from the road bridge over the river at Dartmoor.

•Same beds as XIX. and XX. (corresponds to PBDB collections 173513 and 173514), but higher in the sequence.

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

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 173515: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 01.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Electridae
Tretosina arcifera Canu and Bassler 1927
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
? Callopora monilifera Maplestone 1901
 Cheilostomata - Microporidae
Caleschara denticulata MacGillivray 1869
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
"Schizoporella" submersa Waters 1881
forma 2
"Schizoporella" suffugium n. sp. Brown 1958
Gemellipora auriculata Maplestone 1902
 Cheilostomata - Porinidae
Porina gracilis Lamarck 1816
Porina gracilis vertebralis
 Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Cellaria contigua MacGillivray 1895