Where: Victoria, Australia (39.0° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 67.2° S, 141.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belfast Mudstone Formation (Sherbrook Group), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)
• samples 13.1-13.12, 2459-2468 m depth
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified mudstone and lithified, fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: J. D. Stilwell and S. J. Gallagher. 2009. Biostratigraphy and macroinvertebrate palaeontology of the petroleum-rich Belfast Mudstone (Sherbrook Group, uppermost Turonian to mid-Santonian), Otway Basin, southeastern Australia. Cretaceous Research 30:873-884 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90700: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Trochocyathus (Platycyathus) sp. Fromentel 1863 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithioidea indet. FĂ©russac 1819 snail | |
Latiala cf. mountnorrisi snail | |
? Ringiculidae indet. Philippi 1853 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula cf. meadinga nut clam | |
Mesosaccella sp. Chavan 1946 pointed nut clam
? Nuculana cf. bathurstensis pointed nut clam | |
Tethyoceramus madagascariensis Heinz 1933 clam | |
? Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 nautiloid | |
"Borissiakoceras sp." = Borissjakoceras
"Borissiakoceras sp." = Borissjakoceras Arkhangel'skii 1916 ammonite |