“Picnic bed”, Red Hill district, Hordern Vale (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° S, 141.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fishing Point Marl Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Fishing Point Marl, which is regionally conformable to the upper part of the Puebla Fm. Stratigraphy is discussed by Carter (1958). AGE: The age of the assemblage is Early Miocene and is Longfordian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of the formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; brown marl and brown, calcareous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Brown marl with local lenses of brown calcarenite. LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithification.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 2002. A revision of the Australian genus Umbilia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 59(2):355-392 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175997: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Umbilia (Umbilia) angustior, Zoila glomerabilis
Umbilia (Umbilia) angustior Pritchard 1896 cowry
Zoila glomerabilis Darragh 2011 cowry