PL3203 - Left bank of the Murray River, 7 km NNE of Blanchetown (Miocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.3° S, 139.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 137.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: M5 foram zone, Glenforslan Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Longfordian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal floatstone and lithified rudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: F. C. Holmes, C. Ah Tee, and J. Krause. 2005. Two new Middle Miocene spatangoids (Echinoidea) from the Murray Basin, South Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 62(1):91-99 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88322: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 07.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Goniocidaris murrayensis Chapman and Cudmore 1934 pencil urchin
 Camarodonta - Temnopleuridae
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
 Spatangoida -
Spatagobrissus dermodyorum Holmes et al. 2005 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Loveniidae
Lovenia cf. forbesi heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Brissopsis tatei heart urchin
Cyclaster archeri heart urchin
Eupatagus rotundus heart urchin
Eupatagus sp. Agassiz 1847 heart urchin
Brissus sp. Gray 1825 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
"Protenaster antiaustralis" = Prenaster
"Protenaster antiaustralis" = Prenaster heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Paleopneustidae
"Pericosmus compressus" = Pericosmus crawfordi
"Pericosmus compressus" = Pericosmus crawfordi Hutton 1873 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster (Bolbaster) planedeclivis Gregory 1890 heart urchin
 Spatangoida -
Murraypneustes biannulatus Holmes et al. 2005 heart urchin
 Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Scutellinoides patella Tate 1891 sand dollar
 Temnopleuroida -