Muddy Creek (Tenison-Woods collection) (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.7° S, 141.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° S, 140.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Muddy Creek Marl Member (Port Campbell Limestone Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Balcombian in Australian timescale.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, silty marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Tenison-Woods

• Repository: Macleay Museum, Sydney

Primary reference: S. D. Cairns. 1997. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 591:1-55 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180100: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Conocyathus cyclocostatus n. sp., "Conocyathus fenestratus n. sp." = Trematotrochus fenestratus
Conocyathus cyclocostatus n. sp. Tenison-Woods 1878 stony coral
"Conocyathus fenestratus n. sp." = Trematotrochus fenestratus Tenison-Woods 1878 stony coral