Curdie: Langhian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Ommatocarcinus corioensis (Creswell 1886)
Jenkins 1975
Mammalia - Cetacea
? Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
1 specimen
    = Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
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% 22000R. 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]