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
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 | |
Lovenia sp. Desor 1847 heart urchin | |
Mammalia | |
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Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal |