Also known as Assemblage 5; FL 19
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 55.9° S, 141.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Glen Aire Clay Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Glen Aire Clay. Outcrop is not good and stratigraphical relationships of the outcrop are not clear owing to slipping and covering sediment. Glen Aire Clay regionally overlies the Castle Cove Limestone, which in turn overlies the Browns Creek Clay. AGE: The age of the assemblage is probably Early Oligocene (Abele et al. 19876), though previous writers (Darragh 1987) have tended to regard the lower Glen Aire Clay as latest Eocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower Glen Aire Clay.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably multiple collectors from same locality, including the author, and combination with existing museum collections. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria.
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 1985. Molluscan biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Tertiary of southeastern Australia. Alcheringa 9:83-116 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71236: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Collonista otwayensis snail
Astraea hudsoniana snail | |
Munditia lamellosa snail | |
Margineulima danae snail | |
Pareora stylacris turret shell
Spirocolpus aldingae turret shell | |
Notacirsa lampra Tate 1890 wentletrap | |
Sirius cf. subquadratus snail | |
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa, Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides, Athleta (Ternivoluta) curvirostata, Notopeplum primarugatum, Notovoluta variculifera
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa volute
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides Tate 1888 volute
Notopeplum primarugatum volute
Notovoluta variculifera volute | |
Murexsul prionotus murex snail
Pterochelus otwayensis murex snail
Pteropurpura bifrons murex snail
Pteropurpura calva murex snail | |
Marginella kitsoni margin shell | |
Maudrillia secta snail | |
Austrolithes incompositus Tate 1888 snail | |
Columbarium calcaratum snail | |
Oamaruia ptycjotropis snail
Semitriton dennanti snail | |
Comitas cudmorei snail | |
Parasyngenochilus angustior Long 1981 turrid
Turrinosyrinx denticulata turrid | |
Conorbis otwayensis cone shell
Marshallaria otwayensis cone shell | |
Cordieria protensa snail
Borsonia protexta snail | |
Apiotoma bassi snail | |
Splendrillia hughesi snail | |
Guraleus eocenicus snail | |
Archierato pyrulata Tate 1890 snail
Semitrivia pompholugota Tate 1890 snail
Ellatrivia torquayensis Schilder 1935 snail | |
Willungia cf. ovulatella Tate 1890 snail | |
Proterato australis Tate 1878 snail | |
Sassia oligostira triton shell | |
Friginatica aldingensis Tate 1893 moon snail
Tanea wintlei moon snail | |
Atlanta fossilis snail | |
Cylichnania aratula snail | |
Heliacus (Torinista) darraghi Garrard 1978 snail | |
Triploca ligata snail
Acteon scrobiculatus snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ennucula tenisoni Pritchard 1896 nut clam | |
Saccella chapmani pointed nut clam | |
Sarepta planiuscula Tate 1886 clam | |
Eotrigonia eocenica clam | |
Salaputium communis clam | |
Myadora lamellata Tate 1887 clam | |
Fossacallista tatei Cossmann 1920 venus clam | |
Limopsis chapmani Singleton 1932 clam | |
Limarca angustifrons Tate 1886 clam
Cosa praenuntia clam | |
Notostrea lubra oyster | |
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886 scallop | |
Lima bassi file clam
Limaria polynema file clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) subfissura tusk shell
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni Ludbrook 1956 tusk shell |