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
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
Bivalvia | |
Austrohinnites polyatkinos scallop | |
Zenatiopsis angustata Tate 1879 clam | |
Proxichione cognata venus clam | |
Neotrigonia acuticostata McCoy 1866 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Tylospira marwicki Finlay 1931 snail | |
Notovoluta ellipsoidea volute
Notovoluta tabulata volute | |
Umbilia (Umbilia) hesitata Iredale 1916 cowry |