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
Aturia coxi Miller 1947
Reptilia - Spheniscidae
Pseudaptenodytes macraei Simpson 1970
Fitzgerald 2004
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804
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]