Fishermen’s Steps, Bird Rock Cliffs, Torquay (Oligocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 52.8° S, 142.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jan Juc Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Jan Juc Fm, which regionally conformably overlies the Angahook Fm. Stratigraphy is discussed by Singleton (1968) and Abele et al. (1976). AGE: The age of the assemblage is Late Oligocene-Early Miocene and is type Janjukuan. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, argillaceous siltstone and glauconitic sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Glauconitic clayey silts through marls to glauconitic calcarenite. LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithification.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably multiple collectors from same locality, including the author, and combination with existing museum collections. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria.

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176277: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.02.2016, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Utilized modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Zoila glomerabilis Darragh 2011 cowry
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Periplacotrochus magnus Dennant 1904 stony coral