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 | |
Aturia cubaensis Lea 1841 nautiloid |