Browns Creek, Johanna, Victoria (upper Browns Creek Formation): Late/Upper Eocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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? Pseudominella squarossa
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Parallelodontidae
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Notogrammatodon cainozoicus
(Tate 1886)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Tucetona lenticularis
(Tate 1886)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Barbatia (Barbatia) limatella
Tate 1886
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Arca pseudonavicularis
Tate 1886
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Limopsidae
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Limopsis (Limopsis) chapmani
Singleton 1932
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Limopsis (Limopsis) multiradiata
Tate 1886
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Dimyidae
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Dimya sigillata
Tate 1886
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Spondylidae
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Spondylus gaderopoides
McCoy 1876
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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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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula (Caryocorbula) pixidata
Tate 1887
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recombined as Caryocorbula pixidata | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Dosina multilamellata
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana (Saccella) chapmani
Finlay 1924
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula taitei
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Gastropoda
- Phasianellidae
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Collonia variabilis
Pease 1860
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recombined as Tricolia (Hiloa) variabilis | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Tornidae
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Eutinochilus otwayensis
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spelled with current rank as Teinostoma (Eutinochilus) | |||||||
see common names |
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: | Upper | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Late Eocene, Aldingan Stage; dark gritty clay, above greensand |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | pebbly poorly lithified claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Gritty dark clay | |
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: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Collection method comments: Collections are registered in the Western Australia Museum (WAM) and Museum of Victoria (NMV). Collections PL 3013 and 3014. | |
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for mollusca |
Metadata
Also known as: | upper Browns Creek Formation | ||
Database number: | 48577 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2005-03-23 15:24:32 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-23 15:24:32 |
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] |