PL 3028 - Cliff between Fossil & 1.5 km northwest towards Table Cape (Miocene of Australia)

Also known as Table Cape 930630

Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.0° S, 145.7° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 144.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Freestone Cove Sandstone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Early Longfordian. Material from a lower bed.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified sandstone

• No detailed lithologic data provided, but alternative lithostratigraphic name "Freestone Cove Sandstone" suggests a sandstone lithology

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 2002. A revision of the Australian genus Umbilia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 59(2):355-392 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175979: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Zoila dolichorhyncha n. sp.1, Umbilia (Umbilia) angustior n. sp.2
Zoila dolichorhyncha n. sp.1 Darragh 2011 cowry
Umbilia (Umbilia) angustior n. sp.2 Pritchard 1896 cowry
1Darragh 2011; 2Pritchard 1896