King Island, Seal River (Miocene of Australia)

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
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Foraminifera
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
Trochammina sp. Parker and Jones 1859
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Guttulina irregularis d'Orbigny 1846
Guttulina cf. problema d'Orbigny 1826
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Pseudocythere caudata Sars 1866 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia ovata ostracod
 Podocopida - Macrocyprididae
 Podocopida - Pontocyprididae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Magellania sp. Bayle 1880
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
 Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia sp. Busk 1852
 Cheilostomata - Candidae
Caberea grandis Hincks 1881
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
Exochella grandis Canu and Bassler 1935
 Cheilostomata - Bryocryptellidae
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
"Velumella depressa" = Smittipora
"Velumella depressa" = Smittipora
 Cheilostomata - Aspidostomatidae
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
"Ellisinidra cylindriformis" = Ellisina
"Ellisinidra cylindriformis" = Ellisina
 Cheilostomata - Prostomariidae
 Cheilostomata - Mucronellidae
Smittinella tatei Tenison-Woods 1877
 Cheilostomata - Hippoporinidae
 Cheilostomata - Tetraplariidae
"Bigemellaria pedunculata" = Tetraplaria pedunculata
"Bigemellaria pedunculata" = Tetraplaria pedunculata MacGillivray 1895
 Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
 Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
 Cheilostomata - Porinidae
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
 Cheilostomata - Gigantoporidae
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Cellaria robusta Maplestone 1902
Cellaria depressa Maplestone 1900
Melicerita angustiloba Tenison-Woods 1862
Cellaria rigida MacGillivray 1885
 Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
 Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
"Retepora rimata" = Reteporella rimata
"Retepora rimata" = Reteporella rimata Waters 1881
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Mecynoeciidae
Mecynoecia proboscidea Milne Edwards 1838
 Cyclostomata - Multisparsidae
 Cyclostomata - Tubuliporidae
"Heteropora nodulosa" = Zagorsekia nodulosa
"Heteropora nodulosa" = Zagorsekia nodulosa MacGillivray 1895
 Cyclostomata - Crisiidae
Crisia acropora Busk 1852
 Cyclostomata - Lichenoporidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Fibulariidae
Fibularia gregata sand dollar