Birregurra: Early/Lower Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Turbinoliidae
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Conocyathus scrobiculatus
Dennant 1902
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synonym of Conocyathus zelandiae | |||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Oxyrhina desori
(Agassiz 1843)
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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] |