Spring Creek, near Minhamite: Messinian, Australia
collected by E.D. Gill, H.E. Wilkinson
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Aturiidae
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Aturia coxi
Miller 1947
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Reptilia
- Spheniscidae
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Pseudaptenodytes macraei
Simpson 1970
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Fitzgerald 2004 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenoptera sp.
Lacépède 1804
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Fitzgerald 2004 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
Coordinates: | 37.9° South, 142.4° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.1° South, 141.5° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Messinian | ||
Age range of interval: | 7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Goodwood | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Cheltenhamian stage. The age of the Goodwood Formation is late Miocene, 6.0–7.5 Ma (Tortonian–Messinian) based on molluscan biostratigraphy of the Spring Creek locality (Beu & Darragh 2001). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine,pebbly,gray,green poorly lithified calcareous sandstone |
Lithology description: "green-grey marly fine sand with abundant pebbles" according to Park & Fitzgerald (2012). | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Geology comments: No environment information provided, and none given in other sources. Stratigraphic section in Gill (1964) shows three beds: gray fine sand with fewer fossils (13 inches); greenish-gray to fawn marly sand with pebbles and numerous fossils (12 inches), and greenish marly fine sand and fossils (12-15 inches). It is possible that the middle bed is a storm-deposited shellbed, with the other two representing background sedimentation, in which case an offshore transition environment is plausible. That is somewhat speculative, although a shelf setting is highly likely. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collectors: | E.D. Gill, H.E. Wilkinson |
Collection method comments: Repository: National Museum of Victoria |
Metadata
Database number: | 50364 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-05-13 15:00:18 | Last modified: | 2020-06-05 15:39:45 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-05-13 15:00:18 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
59708. | A. G. Beu. 1973. Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the uppermost Miocene of Australia and New Zealand. Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology. Special Volume (Hatai Memorial Volume) 6:297-308 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
13672 | E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
52809 | T. Park. 2014. Redescription of the Miocene penguin Pseudaptenodytes macraei Simpson (Aves: Sphenisciformes) and redefinition of the taxonomic status of Pseudaptenodytes minor Simpson. Alcheringa 38(3):450-454 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |