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 | |
Gastropoda | |
Heliacus (Torinista) darraghi Garrard 1978 snail | |
Triploca ligata snail
Acteon scrobiculatus snail | |
Sirius cf. subquadratus snail | |
Tanea wintlei moon snail
Friginatica aldingensis Tate 1893 moon snail | |
Atlanta fossilis snail | |
Proterato australis Tate 1878 snail | |
Willungia cf. ovulatella Tate 1890 snail | |
Ellatrivia torquayensis Schilder 1935 snail
Semitrivia pompholugota Tate 1890 snail
Archierato pyrulata Tate 1890 snail | |
Borsonia protexta snail
Cordieria protensa snail | |
Guraleus eocenicus snail | |
Splendrillia hughesi snail | |
Turrinosyrinx denticulata turrid
Parasyngenochilus angustior Long 1981 turrid | |
Conorbis otwayensis cone shell
Marshallaria otwayensis cone shell | |
Comitas cudmorei snail | |
Apiotoma bassi snail | |
Austrolithes incompositus Tate 1888 snail | |
Murexsul prionotus murex snail
Pteropurpura bifrons murex snail
Pteropurpura calva murex snail
Pterochelus otwayensis murex snail | |
Marginella kitsoni margin shell | |
Notopeplum primarugatum, Notovoluta variculifera, Athleta (Ternivoluta) curvirostata, Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa, Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides
Notopeplum primarugatum volute
Notovoluta variculifera volute
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa volute
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides Tate 1888 volute | |
Maudrillia secta snail | |
Semitriton dennanti snail
Oamaruia ptycjotropis snail | |
Columbarium calcaratum snail | |
Sassia oligostira triton shell | |
Notacirsa lampra Tate 1890 wentletrap | |
Margineulima danae snail | |
Spirocolpus aldingae turret shell
Pareora stylacris turret shell | |
Collonista otwayensis snail
Astraea hudsoniana snail | |
Munditia lamellosa snail | |
Cylichnania aratula snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni Ludbrook 1956 tusk shell
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) subfissura tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Notostrea lubra oyster | |
Lima bassi file clam
Limaria polynema file clam | |
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886 scallop | |
Limarca angustifrons Tate 1886 clam
Cosa praenuntia 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 |