Also known as Assemblage 9; FL 35; Fischers Point; PL 3035
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
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 71240: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.04.2007, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Serratifusus scabrosus true whelk | |
"Ternivoluta subcrenulifera" = Athleta (Ternivoluta), Athleta (Ternivoluta) antiscalaris, Notovoluta linigera, Notopeplum maccoyi, Nannamoria fasciculata, Ericusa atkinsoni
"Ternivoluta subcrenulifera" = Athleta (Ternivoluta) volute
Notovoluta linigera volute
Nannamoria fasciculata volute
Ericusa atkinsoni volute | |
"Subpterynotus wallacei" = Murexiella (Subpterynotus), "Typhis evaricosus" = Siphonochelus evaricosus
"Subpterynotus wallacei" = Murexiella (Subpterynotus) murex snail
"Typhis evaricosus" = Siphonochelus evaricosus Tate 1888 murex snail | |
Zoila mulderi Tate 1892 cowry
Umbilia (Umbilia) eximia Sowerby 1845 cowry
Umbilia (Umbilia) angustior Pritchard 1896 cowry Umbilia platyrhyncha also was listed: but Darragh (2002) says that it is known only from one (different) locality.
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Sassia abbotti triton shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Saccella chapmani pointed nut clam | |
Limopsis morningtonensis Pritchard 1901 clam | |
Proxichione hormophora Tate 1885 venus clam | |