Devil's Den (Miocene to of Australia)
Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 141.2° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° S, 138.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: N5-N6 foram zone, Gellibrand Marl Formation, Aquitanian to Aquitanian (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Balcombian (GIll, 1959)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: NMV, Museum Victoria
Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1959. A new fossil penguin from Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 71(2):113-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74769: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni Ludbrook 1956 tusk shell | |
Polyplacophora | |
Protochiton granulosus chiton | |
Gastropoda | |
Volutilithes antiscalaris volute | |
"Natica polita" = Friginatica polita
"Natica polita" = Friginatica polita Tenison Woods 1876 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris cainozoica Tenison Woods 1877 clam | |
Limopsis maccoyi clam | |
"Dimya dissimilis" = Dimyodon dissimilis
"Dimya dissimilis" = Dimyodon dissimilis Tate 1886 scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Murravia catinuliformis Tate 1896 | |
Aves | |
Anthropodyptes gilli n. gen. n. sp.
Anthropodyptes gilli n. gen. n. sp. Simpson 1959 penguin |