Also known as Assemblage 5; FL 19
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 55.9° S, 141.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Glen Aire Clay Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Glen Aire Clay. Outcrop is not good and stratigraphical relationships of the outcrop are not clear owing to slipping and covering sediment. Glen Aire Clay regionally overlies the Castle Cove Limestone, which in turn overlies the Browns Creek Clay. AGE: The age of the assemblage is probably Early Oligocene (Abele et al. 19876), though previous writers (Darragh 1987) have tended to regard the lower Glen Aire Clay as latest Eocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower Glen Aire Clay.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably multiple collectors from same locality, including the author, and combination with existing museum collections. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria.
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 1985. Molluscan biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Tertiary of southeastern Australia. Alcheringa 9:83-116 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71236: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886 scallop | |
Lima bassi file clam
Limaria polynema file clam | |
Notostrea lubra oyster | |
Cosa praenuntia clam
Limarca angustifrons Tate 1886 clam | |
Limopsis chapmani Singleton 1932 clam | |
Myadora lamellata Tate 1887 clam | |
Fossacallista tatei Cossmann 1920 venus clam | |
Salaputium communis clam | |
Eotrigonia eocenica clam | |
Ennucula tenisoni Pritchard 1896 nut clam | |
Saccella chapmani pointed nut clam | |
Sarepta planiuscula Tate 1886 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Triploca ligata snail
Acteon scrobiculatus snail | |
Heliacus (Torinista) darraghi Garrard 1978 snail | |
Astraea hudsoniana snail
Collonista otwayensis snail | |
Munditia lamellosa snail | |
Sassia oligostira triton shell | |
Columbarium calcaratum snail | |
Comitas cudmorei snail | |
Marshallaria otwayensis cone shell
Conorbis otwayensis cone shell | |
Turrinosyrinx denticulata turrid
Parasyngenochilus angustior Long 1981 turrid | |
Guraleus eocenicus snail | |
Borsonia protexta snail
Cordieria protensa snail | |
Apiotoma bassi snail | |
Splendrillia hughesi snail | |
Austrolithes incompositus Tate 1888 snail | |
Oamaruia ptycjotropis snail
Semitriton dennanti snail | |
Marginella kitsoni margin shell | |
Murexsul prionotus murex snail
Pteropurpura bifrons murex snail
Pteropurpura calva murex snail
Pterochelus otwayensis murex snail | |
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa, Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides, Athleta (Ternivoluta) curvirostata, Notopeplum primarugatum, Notovoluta variculifera
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa volute
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides Tate 1888 volute
Notopeplum primarugatum volute
Notovoluta variculifera volute | |
Maudrillia secta snail | |
Willungia cf. ovulatella Tate 1890 snail | |
Proterato australis Tate 1878 snail | |
Archierato pyrulata Tate 1890 snail
Ellatrivia torquayensis Schilder 1935 snail
Semitrivia pompholugota Tate 1890 snail | |
Atlanta fossilis snail | |
Sirius cf. subquadratus snail | |
Friginatica aldingensis Tate 1893 moon snail
Tanea wintlei moon snail | |
Margineulima danae snail | |
Notacirsa lampra Tate 1890 wentletrap | |
Spirocolpus aldingae turret shell
Pareora stylacris turret shell | |
Cylichnania aratula snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni Ludbrook 1956 tusk shell
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) subfissura tusk shell |