Mannum Limestone (Miocene of Australia)

Where: South Australia, Australia (34.9° S, 139.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° S, 136.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mannum Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Mannum Limestone, which conformably overlies the Ettrick Fm (Late Oligocene-Early Miocene) and is conformably overlain by the Morgan Limestone in Murray Basin. 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; lithified limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, presumably shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed based on facies description.

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 72198: 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
Serripecten yahliensis Tenison Woods 1865 scallop
Serripecten squamocostatus Beu and Darragh 2001 scallop
Austrohinnites corioensis McCoy 1879 scallop
Talochlamys eyrei Tate 1886 scallop
Semipallium foulcheri Tenison Woods 1865 scallop
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Psephoaster klydonos n. sp. McNamara 1987 heart urchin