Otway Basin, Voluta-1 Well, core C 16 (Cretaceous of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (39.0° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 67.2° S, 141.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belfast Mudstone Formation (Sherbrook Group), Early/Lower Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• ca. 89-88 Ma, samples 16.1-16.5, 3034-3039 m depth

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified mudstone

• low-energy hydrodynamic regime in a quiescent, deeper shelf setting
• dark grey mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: J. D. Stilwell and S. J. Gallagher. 2009. Biostratigraphy and macroinvertebrate palaeontology of the petroleum-rich Belfast Mudstone (Sherbrook Group, uppermost Turonian to mid-Santonian), Otway Basin, southeastern Australia. Cretaceous Research 30:873-884 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90699: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.08.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Tethyoceramus madagascariensis