Beaumaris, Zanclean (Pliocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° S, 144.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Sandringham Sandstone Member (Black Rock Sandstone Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; ferruginous, phosphatic sandstone

• shallow shelf to shoreface, upward shoaling over time, backshore deposits present
• ferruginous and phosphatic nodules in a matrix of quartz sand and gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Repository: National Museum of Victoria

Primary reference: J. P. Rule, J. W. Adaws, and E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2020. Colonization of the ancient southern oceans by small-sized Phocidae: new evidence from Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 212751: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Loveniidae
Lovenia sp. Desor 1847 heart urchin
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Pinnipedia indet. pinniped
NMV P160426
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal
? Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal
NMV P16198
Monachinae indet. Trouessart 1897 seal
NMV P232849