Where: Victoria, Australia (38.1° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 143.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Moorabool Viaduct Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Moorabool Viaduct Sandstone, which regionally unconformably overlies the Fyansford Fm is laterally correlated to the Black Rock Sandstone, and is conformably overlain by the Red Bluff Sands. AGE: latest Late Miocene (Cheltenhamian) 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; sandstone
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 72224: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Tylospira coronata Tate 1885 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Mimachlamys asperrima Lamarck 1819 scallop | |
Malacostraca | |
Ommatocarcinus corioensis Creswell 1886 crab |