Murray Cliffs, white polyzoal limestone (Miocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.1° S, 139.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° S, 137.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Morgan Group, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• No stratigraphy details, but lithology description ("white polyzoal limestone") is most consistent with the Murray Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rev. C.S.Y. Price

• Repository: National Museum of Victoria

Primary reference: F. Chapman. 1915. New or little-known Victorian fossils in the National Museum. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 27:350-361 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179949: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Nautilus geelongensis Foord 1891 nautiloid