Also known as lower Glen Aire Clay

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.9° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 56.0° S, 141.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Glen Aire Clay Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Early Oligocene age

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: Collections are registered in the Western Australia Museum (WAM) and Museum of Victoria (NMV). Collections PL 3019.

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2000. Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 112(1):17-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48625: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.03.2005

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