Where: Victoria, Australia (38.6° S, 143.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° S, 141.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rutledge Creek Member (Port Campbell Limestone Formation), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Rutledges Creek Mbr of the Port Campbell Limestone, which conformably overlies the Gellibrand Fm (Early-Middle Miocene). AGE: Middle Miocene (Bairnsdalian = Serravallian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown part of member.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Multiple, unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: 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 72232: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2007, edited by Amanda Doyle
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
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Gastropoda | |
Nannamoria limbata volute | |
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Bivalvia | |
Serripecten semilaevis McCoy 1876 scallop
Serripecten yahliensis Tenison Woods 1865 scallop | |
Neotrigonia acuticostata McCoy 1866 clam |