Nor'west Bend, Murray River (Miocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.0° 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; description of "white polyzoal limestone" suggests that it probably is from the Morgan Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: 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 179953: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Nautilus altifrons Chapman 1915 nautiloid