Between Fisherman Steps and Bird Rock, Torquay (Oligocene to of Australia)

Also known as Assemblage 7; FL 24

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.8° S, 142.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jan Juc Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene to Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Jan Juc Fm, which regionally conformably overlies the Angahook Fm. Stratigraphy is discussed by Singleton (1968) and Abele et al. (1976). AGE: The age of the assemblage is Late Oligocene-Early Miocene and is type Janjukuan. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, argillaceous siltstone and glauconitic sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Glauconitic clayey silts through marls to glauconitic calcarenite. LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithification.

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 71238: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Utilized modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments.
unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Sassia abbotti, "Personella interposita" = Sassia (Personella)
Sassia abbotti triton shell
"Personella interposita" = Sassia (Personella) triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Galeodea wilsoni, "Antephalium sufflatus" = Semicassis (Antephalium)
"Antephalium sufflatus" = Semicassis (Antephalium) snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Austrocypraea contusa, Umbilia (Umbilia) prosila1, "Rhynchocypraea leptorhyncha" = Umbilia (Umbilia) leptorhyncha, Zoila sp., "Zoila gigas" = Zoila gigas2, "Gigantocypraea gabrieli" = Zoila gigas
Austrocypraea contusa McCoy 1877 cowry
Umbilia (Umbilia) prosila1 Darragh 2002 cowry
"Rhynchocypraea leptorhyncha" = Umbilia (Umbilia) leptorhyncha McCoy 1877 cowry
Zoila sp. Jousseaume 1884 cowry
"Zoila gigas" = Zoila gigas2 McCoy 1867 cowry
"Gigantocypraea gabrieli" = Zoila gigas McCoy 1867 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
Ellatrivia torquayensis Schilder 1935 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Harpidae
 Neogastropoda -
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Zemira tessellata true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Conus pullulescens" = Parviconus pullulescens Tenison Woods 1879 cone shell
Conus dennanti cone shell
Conus heterospira Tate 1890 cone shell
Conus cuspidatus Tate 1890 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Cochlespiridae
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
 Neogastropoda - Columbariidae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea corioensis McCoy 1876 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Pandorida - Clavagellidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Proxichione etheridgei Pritchard 1903 venus clam
Proxichione hormophora Tate 1885 venus clam
Hina cainozoica Tenison Woods 1877 venus clam
Tawera propinqua Tenison Woods 1877 venus clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina cainozoica Tenison Woods 1877 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Solecurtus legrandi Tenison Woods 1876 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Spissatella maudensis" = Eucrassatella maudensis
"Spissatella maudensis" = Eucrassatella maudensis Pritchard 1903 clam