Portland Bay beach (Miocene of Australia)
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 141.6° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° S, 140.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Port Campbell Limestone Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone and white limestone
• lower light grey unit of the Port Campbell Limestone; upper white unit of the same formation.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Park, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, S. J. Gallagher, E. Tomkins, and T. Allan. 2016. New Miocene fossils and the history of penguins in Australia. PLoS One 11(4):e0153915 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 178455: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Aves | |
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Sphenisciformes indet. Sharpe 1891 penguin | |
| Actinopteri | |
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Labrodon confertidens Chapman and Pritchard 1907 | |