Also known as Assemblage 13; FL 87

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 143.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° S, 141.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gellibrand Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Gellibrand Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Rutledge Creek Member of the Port Campbell Limestone. Stratigraphy is discussed by Mallet (1977). AGE: The age of the assemblage is late Middle Miocene and is Bairnsdalian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From limited stratigraphic thickness exposed on lake shore.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow, blue, calcareous siltstone

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 71352: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.04.2007

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