Where: South Australia, Australia (34.8° S, 140.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.7° S, 136.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• post-Eocene (Oligocene?)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Dennant. 1904. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 7. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 28:52-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122540: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Oculina umbellata n. sp.
Oculina umbellata n. sp. Dennant 1904 stony coral |