Balcombe Clay: Middle Miocene, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Jetwoodsia apheles (Tenison Woods 1879)
Ludbrook 1971
Fossil Beach & Schnapper Point.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta (Ternivoluta) antiscalaris (McCoy 1866)
SUBSPECIES: A. (T.) antiscalaris antiscalaris
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Eotrigonia tubulifera (Tate 1885)
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Ommatocarcinus corioensis (Creswell 1886)
Jenkins 1975
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Oxyrhina hastalis Agassiz 1838
Chapman and Pritchard 1904
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Lamna crassidens Agassiz 1838
Chapman and Pritchard 1904
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Lamna apiculata (Agassiz 1838)
Chapman and Pritchard 1904
original and current combination Otodus apiculatus
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 38.2° South, 145.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.0° South, 143.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
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
Formation:Balcombe Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Balcombe Clay. AGE: middle Middle Miocene (Balcombian) according to Beu and Darragh (2001). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From multiple localities and horizons, hence assigned to a "formation" scale.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Claystone. LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithification, note stated in text.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Environment not reported in text, presumably shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Multiple, unknown collectors. REPOSITORY: Various repositories, including the Museum of Victoria, Melborne, Victoria, Australia.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Restricted list, only comprising bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments.
Metadata
Database number:72188
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen, P. Wagner Enterer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen, P. Wagner
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-05-27 14:14:10 Last modified:2019-09-04 16:20:25
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-05-27 14:14:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18299. 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]

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]
31105 R. J. F. Jenkins. 1975. The fossil crab Ommatocarcinus corioensis (Cresswell) and a review of related Australiasian species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 36:33-62 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]
58574 N. H. Ludbrook. 1971. Large gastropods of the families Diastomatidae and Cerithiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 95(1):29-42 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]