Torquay (Oligocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 52.8° S, 142.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Janjukian Australian Stage

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Canu and R. S. Bassler. 1935. New species of Tertiary Cheilostome Bryozoa from Victoria, Australia. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 93(9):1-54 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174152: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 30.10.2015, edited by Pete Wagner, Mihaela Krause and Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Periplacotrochus elongatus1 Duncan 1864 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Zoila glomerabilis2 Darragh 2011 cowry
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Teuchoporidae
Phylactella chapmani Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
Escharoides erecta Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Bryocryptellidae
Porella cylindrorostris Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Hippoporinidae
Hippomenella magna Canu and Bassler 1935
Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Paraulopidae
"Chlorophthalmus miocenicus" = Paraulopus miocaenicus3
"Chlorophthalmus miocenicus" = Paraulopus miocaenicus3 Frost 1924
 Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Coelorhynchus toulai3 Schubert 1906 grenadiers
 Beryciformes -
"Cleidopus cavernosus n. sp." = Austrocentris cavernosus4, "Austrocentris cavernosus" = Austrocentris cavernosus3
"Cleidopus cavernosus n. sp." = Austrocentris cavernosus4 Stinton 1957
"Austrocentris cavernosus" = Austrocentris cavernosus3 Stinton 1957
 Ophidiiformes - Ophidiidae
Nolfophidion refertus3 Stinton 1957
 Perciformes - Lactariidae
Lactarius sigmoidalis3 Frost 1934 perch-like fish
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
Gnathophis ornatus3 Frost 1928 conger eel
Congridarum obrutus3 Stinton 1957 conger eel
Congridarum "obrutus"
 Albuliformes - Albulidae
Pterothrissus pervetustus3 Stinton 1957 bonefish
Pterothrissus "pervetustus"