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