Freestone Cove Sandstone (Miocene of Australia)

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

• 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 72195: 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.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta (Ternivoluta) anticingulata volute
SUBSPECIES: A. (T.) anticingulata
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Proxichione hormophora Tate 1885 venus clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Eucrassatella oblonga Tenison Woods 1876 clam