Where: Victoria, Australia (38.4° S, 144.4° E: paleocoordinates 52.9° S, 142.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: P21-22 foram zone, Jan Juc Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Jan Juc Fm, which conformably overlies the Demons Bluff Fm (Early-Late Oligocene), laterally correlates to Point Addis and Waurn Ponds Fms, and is conformably overlain by the Puebla Fm (Early Miocene). AGE: Late Miocene (Janjukian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001), p. 197. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: clay overlying Demons Bluff Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Multiple, unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria, Melborne, Victoria, Australia.
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 2011. A revision of the Australian fossil species of Zoila (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68:1-28 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176276: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Zoila didymorhyncha n. sp.
Zoila didymorhyncha n. sp. Darragh 2011 cowry |