Dry Creek Sands (Miocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 138.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° S, 137.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dry Creek Sands Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Dry Creek Sands, which regionally unconformably overlies the Port Willunga Fm (Oligocene-Early Miocene), and is further overlain by the Hallett Cove Sandstone (Late Pliocenein East St Vincent Basin. AGE: earliest Late Miocene (Mitchelian) 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

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, presumably shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithification, note stated in text.

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 72192: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Restricted list, only comprising bivalvia and gastropoda from taxonomically limited publications. NOMENCLATURE: Modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Zenatiopsis angustata Tate 1879 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Neotrigonia acuticostata McCoy 1866 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Struthiolariidae
Tylospira marwicki Finlay 1931 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Nannamoria strophodon volute
SUBSPECIES: Nannamoria strophodon strophodon
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata Iredale 1916 cowry