Nicholson River, Gippsland (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 147.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° S, 146.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gippsland Limestone Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Possibly Bairnsdalian, like the type locality

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: 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 206901: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Elderra toorlooensis Richardson 1991