Where: Victoria, Australia (38.8° S, 143.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° S, 141.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fishing Point Marl Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Fishing Point Marl, which conformably overlies the Calder River Limestone (Early Miocene) in Browns Creek. AGE: Early Miocene (Longfordian) 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; marl

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 72193: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

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