Where: Victoria, Australia (38.7° S, 143.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.1° S, 141.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Gellibrand Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gellibrand Fm, which conformably overlies the Clifton Fm (Early Oligocene and is conformably overlain by the Muddy Creek Fm and Port Campbell Limestone (late Middle Miocene). AGE: late Early Miocene and possibly earliest Middle Miocene (Longfordian-Batesfordian) 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; claystone
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 72200: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Athleta (Ternivoluta) anticingulata volute SUBSPECIES: A. (T.) anticingulata anticingulata and craticula
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Umbilia (Umbilia) eximia Sowerby 1845 cowry | |
Bivalvia | |
Eotrigonia tubulifera Tate 1885 clam | |
Serripecten yahliensis Tenison Woods 1865 scallop
Semipallium foulcheri Tenison Woods 1865 scallop |