Spring Creek, Torquay (Oligocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 52.9° S, 142.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 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. 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176295: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.02.2016, edited by Mihaela Krause and Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Utilized modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Periplacotrochus magnus1 Dennant 1904 stony coral
Periplacotrochus cudmorei1 Cairns 2017 stony coral
Periplacotrochus pueblensis1 Dennant 1903 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
Ellatrivia torquayensis2 Schilder 1935 snail
Ellatrivia minima torquayensis
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Umbilia (Umbilia) prosila Darragh 2002 cowry
Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Sillaginidae
Sillago pliocaenica3 Stinton 1952