Table Cape (Miocene to of Australia)

Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.0° S, 145.7° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° S, 144.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• the section is correlated with the Muddy Creek and partly with the Gambier Limestone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. M. Duncan. 1875. On some fossil corals from the Tasmanian Tertiary deposits. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 31:677-678 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122345: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Deltocyathus fontinalis2 Dennant 1904 stony coral
Paracyathus tasmanicus n. sp.1 Dennant 1899 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia epithecata n. sp. Duncan 1875 stony coral