PL3033 Birregurra: Early/Lower Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Umbilia (Umbilia) angustior
(Pritchard 1896)
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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 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gellibrand Marl | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Miocene age (Longfordian local stage). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: No specific lithology listed, but from lithostratigraphic name ("Gellibrand Marl"), a marl is likely. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 175999 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-01-20 22:14:04 | Last modified: | 2016-01-20 22:14:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-01-20 22:14:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18301. | T. A. Darragh. 2002. A revision of the Australian genus Umbilia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 59(2):355-392 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |