Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.9° S, 142.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.4° S, 141.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bookpurnong Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Bookpurnong Fm, which unconformably overlies the Pata Limestone (Middle Miocene) and is region unconformaly overlain by the Norwest Bend Fm (Late Pliocene) in Murray Basin. AGE: earliest Late Miocene (Bairnsdalian-Mitchellian) 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

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 72190: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007

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