Where: Victoria, Australia (38.3° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 52.8° S, 142.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Jan Juc Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Jan Juc Fm, which conformably overlies the Demons Bluff Fm (Early-Late Oligocene), laterally correlates to Point Addis and Waurn Ponds Fms, and is conformably overlain by the Puebla Fm (Early Miocene). AGE: Late Miocene (Janjukian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001), p. 197. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

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 72199: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007

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