Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° S, 141.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Fishing Point Marl Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Fishing Point Marl, which conformably overlies the Calder River Limestone (Early Miocene) in Browns Creek. AGE: Early Miocene (Longfordian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From multiple localities and horizons, hence assigned to a "formation" scale.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Multiple, unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: Various repositories, including the Museum of Victoria, Melborne, Victoria, Australia.
Primary reference: A. G. Beu and T.A. Darragh. 2001. Revision of southern Australian Cenozoic fossil Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Proceedings of the Royal Sociey of Victoria 113(1):1-205 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72193: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Umbilia (Umbilia) angustior Pritchard 1896 cowry
Umbilia (Umbilia) eximia Sowerby 1845 cowry
Zoila mulderi Tate 1892 cowry | |
Athleta (Ternivoluta) subcrenulifera n. sp. volute
Athleta (Ternivoluta) antiscalaris n. sp. McCoy 1866 volute SUBSPECIES: A. (T.) antiscalaris antiscalaris
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Bivalvia | |
Semipallium foulcheri Tenison Woods 1865 scallop |