Adelaide Bore, Kent Town - Tortachilla Limestone (Eocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 54.9° S, 133.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortachilla Limestone Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from Tortachilla Limestone, which overlies the Maslin Sands and is overlain by the Blanche Point Fm in the East St Vincent Basin. AGE: Late Eocene (Priabonian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001) - local stage=Aldingan. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation, possibly multiple and mixed bed, hence assigned to a "formation" scale.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic, green, argillaceous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Glauconitic clayey green sands. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified on the basis of figured specimens and facies description (limestone)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: Unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: Museum of Victoria.

Primary reference: R. Tate. 1886. The lamellibranchs of the Older Tertiary of Australia (part 1). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 8:96-158 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71407: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.04.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Utilized very antiquated nomenclature, with species-level assignments. Nomenclature updated with Darragh (1970), Darragh (1985), and Beu and Darragh (2001).
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Willungia ovulatella2 Tate 1890 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Macrodon cainozoicus" = Notogrammatodon cainozoicus
"Macrodon cainozoicus" = Notogrammatodon cainozoicus Tate 1886 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia limatella Tate 1886 clam
Barbatia dissimilis Tate 1886 clam
Arca pseudonavicularis Tate 1886 ark
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Arca equidens" = Cucullaea equidens Tate 1886 clam
Cucullaea adelaidensis Tate 1886 clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Pectunculus cainozoicus" = Glycymeris cainozoica, "Pectunculus lenticularis" = Tucetona lenticularis
"Pectunculus cainozoicus" = Glycymeris cainozoica Tenison Woods 1877 clam
"Pectunculus lenticularis" = Tucetona lenticularis Tate 1886 clam
 Arcida - Philobryidae
Limarca angustifrons Tate 1886 clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis multiradiata Tate 1886 clam
Limopsis insolita Sowerby 1846 clam
 Pectinida - Dimyidae
Dimya sigillata Tate 1886 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima polynema" = Promantellum polynema Tate 1886 file clam
Lima alticosta file clam
Lima polyactina Tate 1886 file clam
Lima bassii Tenison Woods 1877 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Victoripecten victoriensis1 Crespin 1950 scallop
"Pecten peroni" = Chlamys peroni Tate 1886 scallop
"Pecten flindersi" = Talochlamys eyrei Tate 1886 scallop
"Pecten zitteli" = Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) zitteli Wohrmann and Koken 1892 scallop
Spondylus gaderopoides McCoy 1876 scallop
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
"Avicula nasuta" = Pteria nasuta
"Avicula nasuta" = Pteria nasuta Tate 1886 pearl oyster
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
"Crenella globularis" = Solamen (Exosiperna) globularis
"Crenella globularis" = Solamen (Exosiperna) globularis Tate 1886 crenella
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolaria semigranosa, "Modiola sp." = Modiolus, "Modiola adelaidensis" = Modiolus adelaidensis
Modiolaria semigranosa Tate 1886 mussel
"Modiola sp." = Modiolus Lamarck 1801 mussel
"Modiola adelaidensis" = Modiolus adelaidensis Tate 1886 mussel
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Mytilicardia alata" = Cardita alata, Mytilicardia curta, "Cardita latissima" = Glyptoactis (Fasciculicardia) latissima
"Mytilicardia alata" = Cardita alata Tate 1886 clam
Mytilicardia curta Tate 1886 clam
"Cardita latissima" = Glyptoactis (Fasciculicardia) latissima Tate 1886 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella astartiformis, "Gouldia lamellata" = Salaputium lamellata, "Crassatella aphrodina" = Eucrassatella aphrodina
"Gouldia lamellata" = Salaputium lamellata Tate 1886 clam
"Crassatella aphrodina" = Eucrassatella aphrodina Tenison Woods 1876 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula semistriata Tate 1886 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda leptorhyncha" = Ledella leptorhyncha, "Leda apiculata" = Nuculana chapmani, "Leda huttoni" = Nuculana
"Leda leptorhyncha" = Ledella leptorhyncha Tate 1886 pointed nut clam
"Leda apiculata" = Nuculana chapmani Finlay 1924 pointed nut clam
"Leda huttoni" = Nuculana pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Sareptidae
"Leda planiuscula" = Sarepta planiuscula
"Leda planiuscula" = Sarepta planiuscula Tate 1886 clam