Where: South Australia, Australia (35.1° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 55.2° S, 133.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tortachilla Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Upper Eocene, upper Tortachilla Limestone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: this article is so poorly written that it's not really possible to tell which taxa belong to which collections, so I'm listing all accessory taxa (secondary to this author's purpose of describing crabs)with this collection
Primary reference: M. F. Glaessner. 1980. New Cretaceous and Tertiary crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 104(6):171-192 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37719: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 22.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Malacostraca | |
Panopeus whittenensis n. sp.
| |
? Dromilites sp. Milne-Edwards 1837 crab | |
Callianassidae indet. Dana 1852 decapod | |
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 |