Where: Victoria, Australia (38.0° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 144.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Black Rock Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Black Rock Sandstone, which regionally unconformably overlies the Fyansford Fm is laterally correlated to the Moorabool Viaduct Sandstone and is conformably overlain by the Red Bluff Sands. AGE: latest Late Miocene (Cheltenhamian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From multiple localities and horizons, hence assigned to a "formation" scale.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Multiple, unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: Various repositories, including the Museum of Victoria, Melborne, Victoria, Australia.
Primary reference: A. G. Beu and T.A. Darragh. 2001. Revision of southern Australian Cenozoic fossil Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Proceedings of the Royal Sociey of Victoria 113(1):1-205 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72189: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007, edited by Mark Uhen
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Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
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Gastropoda | |
Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata Iredale 1916 cowry | |
Bivalvia | |
"Zenatiopsis phorca n. sp." = Zenatia (Zenatiopsis)
"Zenatiopsis phorca n. sp." = Zenatia (Zenatiopsis) clam | |
Eucrassatella eupontica Darragh 1965 clam | |
Talochlamys sp. Iredale 1929 scallop
Serripecten carteri scallop
Serripecten semilaevis McCoy 1876 scallop
Austrohinnites corioensis McCoy 1879 scallop | |
Malacostraca | |
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