Browns Creek, Johanna, Victoria (lower Browns Creek Formation): Late/Upper Eocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Turbinidae
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Bolma (Bolma) flindersi
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| Subspecies: Bolma (Bolma) flindersi darraghi | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Liotiidae
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Liotina lamellosa
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana (Saccella) planiuscula
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| original and current combination Saccella | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula tatei
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Limopsidae
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Limopsis (Limopsis) multiradiata
Tate 1886
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Limopsis (Limopsis) chapmani
Singleton 1932
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Tucetona lenticularis
(Tate 1886)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Parallelodontidae
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Notogrammatodon cainozoicus
(Tate 1886)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Noetiidae
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Arcopsis dissimilis
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula (Caryocorbula) pixidata
Tate 1887
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| recombined as Caryocorbula pixidata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Salaputium communis
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia (Rotundicardia) latissima
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
| Coordinates: | 38.8° South, 143.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.2° South, 141.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Browns Creek | Member: | Lower | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Late Eocene, Aldingan Stage; 9.6 m thick dark clay, below greensand | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Dark clay | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Collections are registered in the Western Australia Museum (WAM) and Museum of Victoria (NMV). Collection PL 3011. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for mollusca | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | lower Browns Creek Formation | ||
| Database number: | 48576 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-03-23 15:20:59 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-23 15:20:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12938. | T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2000. Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 112(1):17-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner] |