Curdie: Langhian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Goneplacidae
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Ommatocarcinus corioensis
(Creswell 1886)
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Jenkins 1975 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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? Balaenopteridae indet.
Gray 1864
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1 specimen | ||||||
= Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
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Piper et al. 2006 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
Coordinates: | 38.5° South, 142.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 47.8° South, 141.2° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Port Campbell Limestone | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Balcombian, correlated with zone N10 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: calcarenite | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Kurdeez Quarry Victorian Agricultural Lime Ltd. | ||
Database number: | 51387 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, A. Hendy | Enterer: | M. Uhen, A. Hendy |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-06-03 06:20:44 | Last modified: | 2009-02-26 16:09:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-03 06:20:44 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4350. | 5% 22000 | R. K. Bearlin. 1987. Early records of balaenopterids from the western South Pacific. Geological Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 37(A) [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
13672 | E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
31105 | R. J. F. Jenkins. 1975. The fossil crab Ommatocarcinus corioensis (Cresswell) and a review of related Australiasian species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 36:33-62 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham] | |
23682 | K. J. Piper, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, and T. H. Rich. 2006. Mesozoic to early Quaternary mammal faunas of Victoria, South-East Australia. Palaeontology 49(6):1237-1262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |