Where: Victoria, Australia (40.1° S, 143.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° S, 142.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Middle Miocene in age and belong to the basal subdivision of the Baleombian,
•the Longford sub-stage, a name recently introduced by the writer (194:3).
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: I. Crespin. 1944. Middle Miocene limestone from King Island, Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 15-18 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166365: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Trochammina sp. Parker and Jones 1859 | |
Nodosariata | |
Guttulina irregularis d'Orbigny 1846
Guttulina cf. problema d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Globothalamea | |
Anthozoa | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
Ostracoda | |
Pseudocythere caudata Sars 1866 ostracod | |
Bythocypris reniformis ostracod | |
Macrocypris decora ostracod | |
Propontocypris attenuata ostracod | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Magellania sp. Bayle 1880 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Nellia sp. Busk 1852 | |
Caberea grandis Hincks 1881 | |
Exochella grandis Canu and Bassler 1935 | |
"Velumella depressa" = Smittipora
"Velumella depressa" = Smittipora | |
Crateropora patula Waters 1881
Macropora clarkei Tenison-Woods 1877
Macropora crassatina Waters 1882 | |
"Ellisinidra cylindriformis" = Ellisina
"Ellisinidra cylindriformis" = Ellisina | |
Smittinella tatei Tenison-Woods 1877 | |
"Bigemellaria pedunculata" = Tetraplaria pedunculata
"Bigemellaria pedunculata" = Tetraplaria pedunculata MacGillivray 1895 | |
Porina gracilis Lamarck 1816 | |
Schizoporella clypeata Canu and Bassler 1935 | |
Gigantopora cribraria MacGillivray 1895 | |
Cellaria gracilis, Cellaria laticella, Cellaria robusta, Cellaria depressa, Melicerita angustiloba, Cellaria rigida
Cellaria robusta Maplestone 1902
Cellaria depressa Maplestone 1900
Melicerita angustiloba Tenison-Woods 1862
Cellaria rigida MacGillivray 1885 | |
"Retepora rimata" = Reteporella rimata
"Retepora rimata" = Reteporella rimata Waters 1881 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Mecynoecia proboscidea Milne Edwards 1838 | |
"Heteropora nodulosa" = Zagorsekia nodulosa
"Heteropora nodulosa" = Zagorsekia nodulosa MacGillivray 1895 | |
Crisia acropora Busk 1852 | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys praecursor scallop | |
Echinoidea | |
Fibularia gregata sand dollar |