Where: South Australia, Australia (35.2° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 57.1° S, 133.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tortachilla Limestone Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Tortachilla Limestone is late Bartonian according to McGowran et al., 2004.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Hiller, MacKinnon
• Repository: University of Canterbury
Primary reference: N. Hiller and D. A. MacKinnon. 2000. A reappraisal of the systematics of the Stethothyris group of brachiopods from the Cenozoic of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 43:59-81 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 206888: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Aliquantula insolita Tate 1880
Epacrothyris pectoralis Tate 1880 |