Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 142.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 141.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Goodwood Fm Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Goodwood Fm (Late Miocene), which unconformably overlies the Port Campbell Limestone (Middle Miocene) and is unconformbly overlain by the Grange Burn Fm (Early Pliocene). AGE: latest Mitchellian-Cheltenhamian, therefore latest Late Miocene according to Beu and Darragh (2001). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Multiple, unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: 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 72235: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Alcithoe (Alcithoe) macrocephala, Amoria undulata, Lyria gemmata, Nannamoria strophodon, Nannamoria paraboloides
Lyria gemmata Tate 1889 volute
Nannamoria paraboloides Darragh 1989 volute | |
Tylospira coronata Tate 1885 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Neotrigonia acuticostata McCoy 1866 clam
Neotrigonia strangei Adams 1854 clam | |
Serripecten semilaevis McCoy 1876 scallop |