Birregurra: Early/Lower Miocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Conocyathus scrobiculatus Dennant 1902
synonym of Conocyathus zelandiae
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Oxyrhina desori (Agassiz 1843)
Chapman and Pritchard 1904
synonym of Isurus oxyrinchus
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.3° South, 143.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.8° 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:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Dennant said Eocene, according to Cairns 1997 a 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:122381
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Uhen Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Uhen
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-12-22 22:31:49 Last modified:2011-12-22 05:31:49
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-12-22 22:31:49
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:

61651 F. Chapman and G. B. Pritchard. 1904. Fossil fish remains from the Tertiaries of Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 17:267-297 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]