Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° S, 141.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Dennant said Upper Eocene, according to Cairns 1997 an Oligocene or Miocene age is more likely
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Dennant. 1902. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 5. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26:255-264 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122380: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Bathyactis excelsa" = Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) excelsa
"Bathyactis excelsa" = Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) excelsa Dennant 1904 stony coral | |
Ceratotrochus exilis Dennant 1902 stony coral
Platytrochus curvatus Dennant 1902 stony coral
Platytrochus hastatus Dennant 1902 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia truncata Dennant 1904 stony coral |