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

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni Ludbrook 1956 tusk shell
Polyplacophora
 Neoloricata -
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Natica polita" = Friginatica polita
"Natica polita" = Friginatica polita Tenison Woods 1876 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris cainozoica Tenison Woods 1877 clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Pectinida - Dimyidae
"Dimya dissimilis" = Dimyodon dissimilis
"Dimya dissimilis" = Dimyodon dissimilis Tate 1886 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Aves
 Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae
Anthropodyptes gilli n. gen. n. sp.
Anthropodyptes gilli n. gen. n. sp. Simpson 1959 penguin