Also known as upper Browns Creek Formation

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.4° E: paleocoordinates 58.2° S, 141.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Browns Creek Formation), Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Late Eocene, Aldingan Stage; dark gritty clay, above greensand

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, pebbly claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: Collections are registered in the Western Australia Museum (WAM) and Museum of Victoria (NMV). Collections PL 3013 and 3014.

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2000. Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 112(1):17-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48577: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2005

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