Fishing Point, Aire River: Middle Miocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiacyathidae
Bathyactis excelsa Dennant 1904
Dennant 1904
recombined as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) excelsa
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Ceratotrochus exilis Dennant 1902
Platytrochus curvatus Dennant 1902
Platytrochus hastatus Dennant 1902
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia truncata Dennant 1904
Dennant 1904
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.8° South, 143.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.6° South, 141.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Dennant said Upper Eocene, according to Cairns 1997 an Oligocene or Miocene age is more likely
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:122380
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-12-22 21:48:52 Last modified:2011-12-22 04:48:52
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-12-22 21:48:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38987. J. Dennant. 1902. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 5. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26:255-264 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

39036 J. Dennant. 1904. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 7. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 28:52-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]