Where: South Australia, Australia (37.9° S, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° S, 137.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Camelback Member (Gambier Formation), Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• early Miocene (N5), about 22 Ma
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, white, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: N. S. Pledge. 2010. The Telford "Cetothere" (Cetacea: Mysticeti). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 13(4):158-163 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 104943: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Paragloborotalia spp., Globoturborotalita brazieri, Globoturborotalita connecta, Globoturborotalita woodi
Paragloborotalia spp. Cifelli 1982
Globoturborotalita woodi Jenkins 1960 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Globothalamea | |
Mammalia | |
Chaeomysticeti indet. whale |