Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 137.8° E: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 133.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Port Willunga Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Equivalent of the Port Willunga Beds of the Maslin-Aldinga Bay standard section. The typical foraminiferal fauna of the Port Willunga Beds with Sherbornina was found at Stansbury. The age of these beds is considered as Late Oligocene.

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by O.S. Rogers, J. Vereo

• Repository: Adelaide University Geology Department

Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1955. Pelagic fossils (Aturia, penguins, whales) from the Tertiary of South Australia. Records of the South Australia Museum 353-371 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50362: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.05.2005

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