Telford's Quarry (Miocene of Australia)

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

• trangression, deep sea
• bryozoan calcarenite

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
 Rotaliina - Cassidulinidae
 Chilostomellacea - Heterolepidae
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Mammalia
 Cetacea -