Shelford: Middle Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Turbinoliidae
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Trematotrochus lateroplenus n. sp.
Dennant 1899
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Conocyathus scrobiculatus
Dennant 1902
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Dennant 1902 | ||||||
synonym of Conocyathus zelandiae | |||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Caryophylliidae
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Ceratotrochus australiensis
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Dennant 1904 | ||||||
Ceratotrochus exilis
Dennant 1902
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Dennant 1902 | ||||||
Deltocyathus verconis n. sp.
Dennant 1904
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Dennant 1904 | ||||||
Platytrochus curvatus
Dennant 1902
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Dennant 1902 | ||||||
Platytrochus hastatus
Dennant 1902
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Dennant 1902 | ||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Balanophyllia patula n. sp.
Dennant 1904
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Balanophyllia truncata
Dennant 1904
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Dennant 1904 | ||||||
Notophyllia gracilis n. sp.
Dennant 1899
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Oxyrhina hastalis
Agassiz 1838
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Chapman and Pritchard 1904 | ||||||
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis | |||||||
Actinopteri
- Gadiformes
- Macrouridae
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Coelorhynchus elevatus
Stinton 1956
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Actinopteri
- Beryciformes
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Trachichthodes salebrosus
Stinton 1957
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Stinton 1957 | ||||||
Actinopteri
- Sillaginidae
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Sillago pliocaenica
Stinton 1952
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Stinton 1957 | ||||||
Actinopteri
- Anguilliformes
- Congridae
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Heterenchelys regularis
Stinton 1957
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Stinton 1957 | ||||||
recombined as Rhynchoconger regularis | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
Coordinates: | 38.0° South, 144.0° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.8° South, 142.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Dennant said Eocene, according to Cairns 2001 a Balcombian (Middle Miocene) age is more likely |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 122349 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling, M. Uhen | Enterer: | U. Merkel, M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2011-12-22 02:40:43 | Last modified: | 2011-12-21 09:40:43 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2012-12-22 02:40:42 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
38943. | J. Dennant. 1899. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 2. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 23:281-287 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
61651 | F. Chapman and G. B. Pritchard. 1904. Fossil fish remains from the Tertiaries of Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 17:267-297 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
38987 | J. Dennant. 1902. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 5. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26:255-264 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] | |
39036 | J. Dennant. 1904. Descriptions of new species of corals from the Australian Tertiaries, Part 7. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 28:52-76 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] | |
76029 | F. C. Stinton. 1957. Fish otoliths from the Tertiary strata of Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 70:81-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |