Muddy Creek Fm: Middle Miocene, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Pseudomalaxis (Pseudomalaxis) praemeridionalis
(Chapman 1912)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Athleta (Ternivoluta) antiscalaris
(McCoy 1866)
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| SUBSPECIES: A. (T.) antiscalaris levior | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Umbilia (Umbilia) siphonata
(Chapman 1922)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Proxichione subtilicostata
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Trigoniidae
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Eotrigonia subundulata
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Eotrigonia tubulifera
(Tate 1885)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Austrohinnites corioensis
(McCoy 1879)
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Talochlamys keiloriana
(Crespin 1926)
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Dichotochlamys dichotomalis
(Tate 1886)
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
| Coordinates: | 37.7° South, 142.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.6° South, 140.2° 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: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Muddy Creek | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Muddy Creek, which interfingers the Gellibrand Fm (Early Miocene-Middle Miocene) in Central Otway Basin. AGE: 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: | "siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology. 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 and gastropoda from taxonomically limited publications. NOMENCLATURE: Modern nomenclature, with species-level assignments. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 72196 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-05-27 15:57:05 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2007-05-27 15:57:05 |
| 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:
| 34133 | M. F. Buonaiuto. 1975. Note on the genus Pseudomalaxis Fischer (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and its fossil species in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 99(1):21-29 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |