PL3094 - Rutledges Creek Mbr, Port Campbell Limestone (Miocene of Australia)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, presumably shallow marine carbonate setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed on the basis of facies description.

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 72233: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Restricted list, only comprising bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Serripecten yahliensis Tenison Woods 1865 scallop
Serripecten semilaevis McCoy 1876 scallop