Fishers Point - Fishing Point Marl: Early/Lower Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Serratifusus scabrosus
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Notovoluta linigera
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Notopeplum maccoyi
(Tenison Woods 1877)
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| SUBSPECIES: N. maccoyi translucidum | ||||||||||
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Ternivoluta subcrenulifera
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| spelled with current rank as Athleta (Ternivoluta) | ||||||||||
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Athleta (Ternivoluta) antiscalaris
(McCoy 1866)
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| SUBSPECIES: A. (T.) antiscalaris antiscalaris | ||||||||||
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Ericusa atkinsoni
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Nannamoria fasciculata
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Typhis evaricosus
Tate 1888
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| recombined as Siphonochelus evaricosus | ||||||||||
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Subpterynotus wallacei
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| original and current combination Murexiella (Subpterynotus) | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Zoila mulderi
(Tate 1892)
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Umbilia (Umbilia) angustior
(Pritchard 1896)
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Darragh 2002 | |||||||||
| Umbilia platyrhyncha also was listed: but Darragh (2002) says that it is known only from one (different) locality. | ||||||||||
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Umbilia (Umbilia) eximia
(Sowerby 1845)
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Darragh 2002 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Ranellidae
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Sassia abbotti
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Saccella chapmani
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Limopsidae
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Limopsis morningtonensis
Pritchard 1901
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Proxichione hormophora
(Tate 1885)
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia janjukiensis
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
| Coordinates: | 38.8° South, 143.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.2° South, 141.5° 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: | Fishing Point Marl | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Fishing Point Marl, which is regionally conformable to the upper part of the Puebla Fm. Stratigraphy is discussed by Carter (1958). AGE: The age of the assemblage is Early Miocene and is Longfordian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of the formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown marl |
| Secondary lithology: | brown calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Brown marl with local lenses of brown calcarenite. LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithification. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, siliciclastic. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Probably multiple collectors from same locality, including the author, and combination with existing museum collections. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Utilized modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Assemblage 9; FL 35; Fischers Point; PL 3035 | ||
| Database number: | 71240 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, P. Wagner | Enterer: | A. Hendy, P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-04-22 20:20:25 | Last modified: | 2016-02-05 15:26:49 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2007-10-22 20:20:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23859. | T. A. Darragh. 1985. Molluscan biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Tertiary of southeastern Australia. Alcheringa 9:83-116 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |