Sewer between Braeside and corner of Boundary and Centre Dandenong roads (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 145.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.2° S, 143.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Balcombian Australian stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. Bell, T.A. Darragh in 1969

• Repository: National Museum of Victoria

Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 1973. Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the uppermost Miocene of Australia and New Zealand. Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology. Special Volume (Hatai Memorial Volume) 6:297-308 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180122: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia cubaensis Lea 1841 nautiloid