Where: Tasmania, Australia (41.0° S, 145.7° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 144.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Freestone Cove Sandstone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Freestone Cove Sandstone, which is conformably overlain by the Fossil Bluff Sandstone (Early Oligocene) in Browns Creek. AGE: Early Miocene (latest Janjukian) 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 72195: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
Proxichione hormophora Tate 1885 venus clam | |
Eucrassatella oblonga Tenison Woods 1876 clam |