Where: Victoria, Australia (37.9° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 144.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Cheltenhamian Australian stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T.A. Darragh

• 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 180127: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.07.2016

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