Maslin Bay, Aldinga (University of Canterbury collection) (Eocene of Australia)

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
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae