PL 1265 - Cameron Inlet Fm, Flinders Island (Pliocene of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (40.0° S, 148.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° S, 147.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cameron Inlet Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Cameron Inlet Formation, which lies unconformably below the Memana Fm (Pleistocene). AGE: Pliocene according to Darragh (1991), Late Pliocene according to Beu and Darragh (2001) STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment. No data reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY AND LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithology and lithification. No data reported in text.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Unknown collector(s). REPOSITORY: Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Victoria, Melborne, Victoria.

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 1989. A revision of the Tertiary Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of south-eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 49(2):195-308 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63703: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Not a complete assemblage. Only includes taxa derived from taxon-specific publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publications, with modern nomenclatural usage.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Nannamoria paraboloides
Nannamoria paraboloides Darragh 1989 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Struthiolariidae
Tylospira gilli1, Tylospira coronata1
Tylospira coronata1 Tate 1885 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata2
Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata2 Iredale 1916 cowry
1Darragh 1991; 2Darragh 2002