Shelford: Middle Miocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Trematotrochus lateroplenus n. sp. Dennant 1899
Conocyathus scrobiculatus Dennant 1902
Dennant 1902
synonym of Conocyathus zelandiae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Ceratotrochus australiensis
Dennant 1904
Ceratotrochus exilis Dennant 1902
Dennant 1902
Deltocyathus verconis n. sp. Dennant 1904
Dennant 1904
Platytrochus curvatus Dennant 1902
Dennant 1902
Platytrochus hastatus Dennant 1902
Dennant 1902
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia patula n. sp. Dennant 1904
Dennant 1904
Balanophyllia truncata Dennant 1904
Dennant 1904
Notophyllia gracilis n. sp. Dennant 1899
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Oxyrhina hastalis Agassiz 1838
Chapman and Pritchard 1904
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Coelorhynchus elevatus Stinton 1956
Stinton 1957
Actinopteri - Beryciformes
Trachichthodes salebrosus Stinton 1957
Stinton 1957
Actinopteri - Sillaginidae
Sillago pliocaenica Stinton 1952
Stinton 1957
Actinopteri - Anguilliformes - Congridae
Heterenchelys regularis Stinton 1957
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]