Where: Victoria, Australia (38.1° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° S, 142.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fyansford Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• No stratigraphy details, but presumably from the middle Miocene Fyansford Formation. Chapman included it in the Janjukian, which he considered Miocene and younger than the Balcombian. Carter (1963) recorded Orbulina universa throughout the Fyansford section and thus regarded the whole as belonging to his faunal unit 11, the Bairnsdalian. Faunal unit (10), characterised by Orbulina suturalis and the equivalent of the Balcombian of Singleton, he recorded only from the 30' of clays overlying the Batesford Limestone at Batesford. The macrofaunas of the clays at Batesford and Fyansford do not differ, though, and both are represented at Balcombe Bay, so the author accepts Carter's correlation. The bulk of the regressive portion of the Fyansford Clay, including the whole of the Fyansford section is Bairnsdalian, belonging to faunal unit 11 of Carter.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.F. Mulder
• 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 179950: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Nautilus geelongensis Foord 1891 nautiloid |