Near Geelong (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.1° S, 144.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.8° S, 147.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• No stratigraphy information

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. H. Foord. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part II. Containing the Remainder of the Suborder Nautiloidea, Consisting of the Families Lituitidae, Trochoceratidae, and Nautilidae, with a Supplement 1-407 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180211: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Nautilus geelongensis n. sp. Foord 1891