Also known as Assemblage 5; FL 19
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 53.8° S, 153.1° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Glen Aire Clay Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Glen Aire Clay. Outcrop is not good and stratigraphical relationships of the outcrop are not clear owing to slipping and covering sediment. Glen Aire Clay regionally overlies the Castle Cove Limestone, which in turn overlies the Browns Creek Clay. AGE: The age of the assemblage is probably Early Oligocene (Abele et al. 19876), though previous writers (Darragh 1987) have tended to regard the lower Glen Aire Clay as latest Eocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower Glen Aire Clay.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Probably multiple collectors from same locality, including the author, and combination with existing museum collections. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria.
Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 1985. Molluscan biogeography and biostratigraphy of the Tertiary of southeastern Australia. Alcheringa 9:83-116 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71236: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Cylichnania aratula snail | |
Atlanta fossilis snail | |
Notacirsa lampra Tate 1890 wentletrap | |
Pareora stylacris turret shell
Spirocolpus aldingae turret shell | |
Friginatica aldingensis Tate 1893 moon snail
Tanea wintlei moon snail | |
Sirius cf. subquadratus snail | |
Notopeplum primarugatum, Athleta (Ternivoluta) curvirostata, Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa, Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides, Notovoluta variculifera
Notopeplum primarugatum volute
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) cribrosa volute
Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides Tate 1888 volute
Notovoluta variculifera volute | |
Pterochelus otwayensis murex snail
Pteropurpura bifrons murex snail
Pteropurpura calva murex snail
Murexsul prionotus murex snail | |
Marginella kitsoni margin shell | |
Oamaruia ptycjotropis snail
Semitriton dennanti snail | |
Guraleus eocenicus snail | |
Comitas cudmorei snail | |
Cordieria protensa snail
Borsonia protexta snail | |
Apiotoma bassi snail | |
Marshallaria otwayensis cone shell
Conorbis otwayensis cone shell | |
Turrinosyrinx denticulata turrid
Parasyngenochilus angustior Long 1981 turrid | |
Splendrillia hughesi snail | |
Austrolithes incompositus Tate 1888 snail | |
Maudrillia secta snail | |
Columbarium calcaratum snail | |
Sassia oligostira triton shell | |
Proterato australis Tate 1878 snail | |
Willungia cf. ovulatella Tate 1890 snail | |
Ellatrivia torquayensis Schilder 1935 snail
Semitrivia pompholugota Tate 1890 snail
Archierato pyrulata Tate 1890 snail | |
Margineulima danae snail | |
Triploca ligata snail
Acteon scrobiculatus snail | |
Heliacus (Torinista) darraghi Garrard 1978 snail | |
Collonista otwayensis snail
Astraea hudsoniana snail | |
Munditia lamellosa snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Fissidentalium) mawsoni Ludbrook 1956 tusk shell
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) subfissura tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Ennucula tenisoni Pritchard 1896 nut clam | |
Saccella chapmani pointed nut clam | |
Sarepta planiuscula Tate 1886 clam | |
Limopsis chapmani Singleton 1932 clam | |
Cosa praenuntia clam
Limarca angustifrons Tate 1886 clam | |
Notostrea lubra oyster | |
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886 scallop | |
Lima bassi file clam
Limaria polynema file clam | |
Salaputium communis clam | |
Fossacallista tatei Cossmann 1920 venus clam | |
Myadora lamellata Tate 1887 clam | |
Eotrigonia eocenica clam |