Swan Reach, Murray River (Miocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.0° S, 139.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° S, 137.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Morgan Limestone, now considered to be a subgroup; formation not known.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: South Australian Museum

Primary reference: K. J. McNamara and G. M. Philip. 1980. Australian Tertiary schizasterid echinoids. Alcheringa 4(1):47-65 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204584: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster (Dipneustes) fosteri n. sp. McNamara and Philip 1980 heart urchin